Reports: Top high school received hundreds of thousands of dollars from Chinese entities [Video]

WASHINGTON (TND) — It’s often ranked among the top American public high schools but now a wave of controversy surrounds Thomas Jefferson High School in Virginia. Reports show the school received hundreds of thousands of dollars from entities linked to the Chinese Communist Party.

Parents Defending Education is calling on the state’s governor and attorney general to investigate.

PDE President Nicole Neily joined The National Desk’s Jan Jeffcoat Friday morning to discuss the situation.

“There were three entities linked to the Chinese Communist Party and the Chinese military that had donated over a million dollars to the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology and it raises questions about what they got in exchange for this,” she said. “It sounds like they were basically able to come in and look under the hood. They had access to floor plans, lesson plans, and then they were able to go back overseas and replicate …