Top US High School Traded Curriculum for Donations in Secretive Business Deals With CCP-Tied Groups, IRS Complaint Says

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Selling academic blueprints to a foreign adversary is 'completely unrelated' to any charitable purpose, Defending Education charges in IRS complaint

An elite public high school in northern Virginia handed over its world-class STEM curriculum to Chinese Communist Party apparatchiks at the same time the groups donated $3.6 million to the school’s affiliated charity. That charity should be stripped of its tax privileges and forced to pay a hefty price to the IRS for facilitating the information exchange, a watchdog organization charged in a complaint filed Tuesday.

Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology was consistently ranked the nation’s top public high school when it provided its academic blueprints to a trio of CCP-linked organizations, which used the documents to launch at least 20 copy-cat "Thomas Schools" that operate today in China. From 2014 through 2021, those same China-affiliated organizations transferred $3.6 million to the Thomas Jefferson Partnership Fund, the school’s affiliate charity which operates out of its Fairfax County building. The Partnership Fund described the payments as charitable contributions in its reports to the IRS in what the watchdog group Defending Education alleges is a clear violation of federal tax law.