This High School Principal Can’t Stop Selling Out America’s Best Schools To China
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A principal who came under fire for helping China clone America’s best STEM high school has a new job — and he’s trying to partner with the Chinese yet again.
During his time at the helm of Virginia’s Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, Evan Glazer began the process of handing over the school’s curriculum, syllabi, and floor plans to China for replication after receiving several large donations from Chinese entities to a nonprofit linked to the school.
Glazer,wholefttheschoolin2017,isnowpresidentoftheIllinoisMathandScienceAcademy(IMSA),aresidentialschoolinAurora.UnderGlazer’sleadership,theschoolhaslookedtodevelopresearchprogramswiththeThomasSchools,agroupofChina-basedschoolsthatwerecreatedwithbackingfromChineseCommunistParty-linkedentities.EmailsobtainedbyDefendingEducationandsharedwithTheDailyWireshowthatthetaxpayer-fundedIMSAandtheThomasSchoolshaveproposedestablishingajointventurein2025.
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