‘Threat’: Education Department warns of China’s influence on campus

The Education Department told House Republicans it is concerned about the threat posed by the Chinese government as part of an update on its sprawling investigation into foreign funding and influence on U.S. campuses.

Reed Rubinstein, the Education Department’s acting general counsel, responded to an early May letter from Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio and the GOP’s ranking members on six other House committees with a five-page letter of his own this week, which was obtained by the Washington Examiner. Rubinstein provided new details about the agency’s investigation into foreign money at institutes of higher education, what it had unearthed, especially as it related to China, and what transparency roadblocks were being put up by schools.