A top-ranked science and technology high school in Northern Viriginia is accused of trading its curriculum blueprints with the Chinese Communist Party in exchange for millions in charitable donations, according to an IRS complaint filed by a nonpartisan education watchdog.

Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Fairfax, Virginia, has had a complaint filed against it by Defending Education, in which they alleged the school received $3.6 million for their Thomas Jefferson Partnership Fund in exchange for providing its STEM curriculum to China.

From 2014 through 2021, at least 20 copy-cat schools, including Shirble HK, the Ameson Foundation, and Tsinghua University High School, transferred donations to the school’s The Partnership Fund, which it then classified as charitable contributions in its reports to the IRS.

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