Transparency in Reporting of Adversarial Contributions to Education Act
Key claim: As a condition of federal K-12 funds, LEAs must ensure schools notify parents of rights to obtain curricular materials, personnel-compensation counts, and funding/agreement details tied to foreign governments or foreign entities of concern, and must publicly post a summary of those rights.
Abstract
(HR1049 · 119th Congress) 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. Latest action (2025-12-04): Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Why this matters
For K-12 schools and LEAs, this proposal ties federal education funding to a new parental-transparency regime specifically targeting foreign government and foreign-entity-of-concern involvement — curricular materials, personnel compensation, and any funding or agreements. It sits alongside the CLASS Act and other foreign-influence measures as part of a broader legislative push to import higher-ed-style foreign-gift disclosure norms into elementary and secondary education, with compliance costs and public-posting obligations for districts.