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Virginia government tells elite high school to ‘cut ties’ with Chinese government
The Virginia Schooling Division directed Fairfax County Public Colleges (FCPS) to “lower ties” with Chinese language government-linked entities after it was revealed by the Washington Examiner that certainly one of its elite excessive colleges had collaborated with a Chinese language military-linked group for years.
Virginia Secretary of Schooling Aimee Guidera despatched a letter to FCPS Superintendent Michelle Reid on Wednesday, urgent the college system on revelations that Thomas Jefferson Excessive Faculty for Science and Know-how (TJHSST) and the TJHSST Partnership Fund have “accepted important monetary contributions from entities identified to have connections to the Chinese language Communist Social gathering.”
VIRGINIA HIGH SCHOOL WORKED WITH CHINESE MILITARY-LINKED ORG
The Virginia-based college partnered with Tsinghua College Excessive Faculty, or TUHS, to help it and China usually with adopting the science, know-how, engineering, and arithmetic, or STEM, and superior lab analysis. TUHS is intently tied to Tsinghua College, thought-about by the Pentagon to be a Chinese language navy college.
Guidera advised FCPS on Wednesday to “direct colleges inside your division to chop ties with CCP-linked companions” and mentioned she had requested her division to “examine the prevalence of such relationships between CCP-linked companions and native college divisions” throughout Virginia.
The Virginia schooling secretary mentioned the revelations that “a Virginia highschool accepted contributions from CCP-linked entities” have been “regarding, and warrant a response concerning the character of those funds.” Guidera advised FCPS to say precisely how a lot cash the TJ fund had acquired from the Chinese language entities and the way these funds have been used, and whether or not any of the Chinese language entities “supplied any steering, affect, or tutorial supplies associated to content material taught” at TJHSST.
Guidera additionally requested FCPS whether or not “any personal pupil data” or “any tutorial supplies, class schedules, and particular person efficiency or analysis indicators” have been supplied to the Chinese language entities.
The Virginia authorities inquiry comes following a Washington Examiner investigation into the saga.
The nonprofit group Mother and father Defending Schooling (PDE) helped unearth the Chinese language funding for TJHSST and had requested Virginia’s Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin to analyze.
“We’re grateful that Gov. Youngkin and Secretary Guidera have taken swift steps to analyze the scope of this scandal — not solely at TJ, however all through the Commonwealth,” PDE President Nicole Neily mentioned. “This incident highlights the acute want for federal lawmakers to deal with this drawback going ahead, and to mandate disclosure of overseas funding to America’s Ok-12 colleges.”
FCPS lately tried to defend the association between TJHSST and the Chinese language entities. Julie Moult, the media relations supervisor for FCPS, advised the Washington Examiner final week that TJHSST is “world-renowned” and that “it’s not uncommon for elite public colleges, faculties, and universities within the U.S. to profit from donations and grants from varied sources, together with worldwide sources.”
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FCPS didn’t reply to a request for remark in regards to the new state-level investigation.
The TJPF acquired lots of of 1000’s of {dollars} from Tsinghua College as a part of its settlement with TUHS. The TJPF additionally acquired lots of of 1000’s of {dollars} from Ameson Schooling and Cultural Trade Basis, in addition to the Chinese language firm Shirble, which have been all led by males tied to China’s United Entrance Work Division, which manages Chinese language authorities overseas affect campaigns.
West Virginia has landed its second commitment out of the transfer portal, and its first on the offensive side of the ball.
Sunday evening, Eastern Michigan wide receiver transfer Oran Singleton Jr. announced his pledge to the Mountaineers.
This past season for the Eagles, Singleton caught a team-high 64 passes for 639 yards and two touchdowns. Prior to arriving at Eastern Michigan, Singleton played one year at Akron and then made the move to the junior college level to play for Hutchinson CC. There, he led the team in receptions (31) and was second in yards (419).
West Virginia will continue to add to the wide receiver room in the coming days and weeks as they look to replace the departure of Justin Robinson along with the potential departures of Traylon Ray Ric’Darious Farmer and Hudson Clement.
Singleton will have one year of eligibility remaining.
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Still without Tucker DeVries, Sunday’s game against Mercyhurst would be West Virginia’s final opportunity to figure things out ahead of their holiday break, followed by the gauntlet that is the Big 12.
While the Mountaineers would ease past the Lakers, they couldn’t do it without suffering another injury. Starting center Amani Hansberry was injured in the opening minute and did not return as West Virginia beat Mercyhurst 67-46 at the WVU Coliseum to close non-conference play.
The Mountaineers persevered the early departure of Hansberry by getting inside on the Lakers. After a Jonathan Powell 3-pointer, eight of WVU’s next 13 points came at the rim as they took a 16-7 lead in the opening eight minutes of action.
While the Lakers would be able to keep the West Virginia lead in single digits, a late 11-3 run helped West Virginia into halftime with a 35-22 lead.
While West Virginia shot 50 percent from the field in the first half, the second half would have a much different feel to it.
West Virginia made only one basket, and that came on a score from Eduardo Andre just a minute into the second half. After that, though, West Virginia’s offense went silent, and it allowed the Lakers to get back into the game.
Mercyhurst went on an 8-0 run from the 17:23 mark until the 14:46 mark of the second half, as West Virginia’s lead was cut to 38-30. The Mountaineers would respond appropriately, though, going on a 16-0 run themselves, pushing the lead to 24 with 8:13 to play.
During the run, it was a plethora of players who got involved for the Mountaineers. Five different players scored during the run, including Javon Small, who scored on a fastbreak dunk after a steal from Joe Yesufu. The dunk would be Small’s 1,000th career point.
Mercyhurst countered with a 5-0 run, but that didn’t faze the Mountaineers in the slightest. West Virginia scored the next nine points as they continued to lock down on defense.
Mercyhurst would score only 11 points in the final 14:45 of the game, shooting 22 percent from the field in the second half and 28 percent from the field on the afternoon. West Virginia held Mercyhurst to shoot only 5-for-17 from beyond the arc.
The Mountaineers shot 48 percent from the field despite struggling mightly from three as they shot 5-for-19 from beyond the arc. Small led West Virginia with 19 points on the afternoon.
West Virginia now will be off until Dec. 31, when they open Big 12 play on the road against No. 8 Kansas.
A Richmond, Virginia, woman lost more than $30,000 after police say she fell victim to a scam.
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RICHMOND, Virginia (WTVR) — A Richmond, Virginia, woman lost more than $30,000 after police say she fell victim to a scam.
CBS 6 Crime Insider Jon Burkett spoke to Frank Oley, her financial adviser and Greg Wade, a Richmond detective about how this happened.
The woman got an email which appeared to be from PayPal.
“It was about the purchase of some type of malware and if you didn’t want it to call a certain number,” Wade said.
She then called the number and got swindled.
“After the transaction was done, he said, ‘You added too many zeroes,’ and, ‘Oh, my God, I’m going to lose my job, it’s Christmas time and I have kids,’ laid it on thick to her. This client being such a nice, honest and decent person felt sorry for this guy,” Wade explained.
The woman felt so bad she withdrew a total of $34,300 from two banks in an effort to pay for what she thought was her mistake.
The scammer instructed her to load the cash into a bitcoin machine along Azalea Avenue. It took her two hours and 873 separate transactions to do.
Detective Wade got a search warrant and told the store to shut the machine down. A representative came to open it, and the woman’s money was still there.
Her money is being held as evidence for now, but she will get it all back.
“The good news is with George, the Richmond City Police Department, we got the money back,” Oley said.
Wade says the scammer was traced to a location outside the United States.
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