Summary

Requires schools and school districts that receive federal funds to give parents specific access to information and materials tied to foreign funding or relationships. Parents would be able to review and copy relevant curricular and professional-development materials, learn whether staff are paid with foreign funds, and be notified about donations, agreements, or other financial transactions involving foreign countries or foreign entities of concern. Schools and agencies must also post and distribute a yearly summary of these parental rights.

Key Points

• Requires federally funded K–12 schools and districts to disclose foreign funding sources, donations, agreements, and related financial transactions tied to foreign countries/entities of concern.
• Gives parents the right to review and copy curricular and professional-development materials that are relevant to those foreign-funded relationships.
• Obliges schools to tell parents if staff are paid (in whole or in part) with such foreign funds.
• Requires schools or districts to post and share a one-page (or similar) annual summary of these parental rights each school year.
• Applies only to schools and districts that receive federal funds; private schools without federal funding are outside the rule as written.
• Imposes new administrative and recordkeeping duties on schools and districts to track foreign funding and respond to parental access requests.
• Raises potential privacy, donor‑confidentiality, payroll, and contract issues that schools will need to address.
• Does not, in the text provided, specify enforcement mechanisms, penalties, or additional funding to cover compliance costs.

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