Beijing’s influence persists in US schools under a new name

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If students are learning Chinese in public schools, they could be using a curriculum shaped by the Chinese Communist Party. 

In 2004, Beijing began to establish Confucius Institutes on American university campuses, which in turn partnered with K-12 public schools to establish roughly 500 Confucius Classrooms. A backlash on Capitol Hill led to the closure of nearly all the Confucius Institutes, leading most to assume that the problem had been solved.

Jennifer Richmond, an education adviser and China specialist, is the deputy director of Education and National Security at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.