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S. 4822 118th Congress Senate

Transparency in Reporting of Adversarial Contributions to Education Act

Official title: A bill to ensure that parents are aware of foreign influence in their child's public school, and for other purposes.

Introduced: July 29, 2024 Introduced by: Ted Cruz Republican · Texas See on congress.gov
Education Education programs fundingElementary and secondary educationSchool administrationState and local government operationsTeaching, teachers, curricula
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Jul 29, 2024
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

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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.

 Related & companion bills 1
  • HR 8649 Identical bill Transparency in Reporting of Adversarial Contributions to Education Act
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Registered lobbyists who named this bill in their disclosure filings. Source: federal Lobbying Disclosure Act filings.

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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 4822: Transparency in Reporting of Adversarial Contributions to Education Act. 118th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/118-S-4822/
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"S. 4822: Transparency in Reporting of Adversarial Contributions to Education Act." 118th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/118-S-4822/.
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S. 4822, 118th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/118-S-4822/.
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