Chinese officials are targeting American students as early as kindergarten to influence public opinion through a well-funded and subtle program, a bipartisan Senate subcommittee investigation revealed.

“We learned that schools in the United States — from kindergarten to college — have provided a level of access to the Chinese government that the Chinese government has refused to provide to the United States,” Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, who chairs the Homeland Security and Government Affairs panel that conducted the investigation, said Wednesday.