Transparency in Reporting of Adversarial Contributions to Education Act
Sponsored by Aaron Bean
Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Dec 4, 2025
This bill requires local educational agencies (LEAs) receiving federal K-12 education funds to notify parents of rights to request information about foreign government or foreign entity influence in schools. Parents may request and review at no cost curricular and professional development materials obtained using foreign government funds, request written information about school personnel compensation from foreign sources, and request written information about foreign funding or agreements with schools. Schools must post a public notice summarizing these parental rights, and the Department of Education must notify state educational agencies (SEAs) about these requirements, which SEAs must then communicate to LEAs.
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Transparency in Reporting of Adversarial Contributions to Education Act This bill requires each local educational agency (LEA), as a condition of receiving federal elementary and secondary education funds, to ensure that each elementary and secondary school served by the LEA notifies parents of their rights to request and receive information regarding foreign influence (e.g., influence by China) in schools. These rights include the right to review (and make copies of at no cost) any curricular or professional development material used at the school that was obtained using funds received from a foreign government or a foreign entity of concern; know, by written response, how many school personnel are compensated using funds received from a foreign government or a foreign entity of concern; and know, by written response, information about funding from or agreements (e.g., contracts) with a foreign country or a foreign entity of concern. Parents must submit a written request for this information. Each school must post on a publicly accessible website (or otherwise widely disseminate to the public) a summary notice of parental rights under the bill. The bill requires the Department of Education to notify state educational agencies (SEAs) about the bill's requirements. Each SEA must, as a condition of receiving federal elementary and secondary education funds, notify LEAs about the bill's requirements.