Concerns have been raised that the Chinese state is influencing the American education system by offering millions of dollars in funding to public schools, amid growing fears about its impact on the U.S. At a hearing of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce on Tuesday, stakeholders claimed that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was using soft power to sway U.S. institutions—including some private schools as well as public schools—posing a national security threat. Ryan Walters, Oklahoma's superintendent of public instruction, who previously served as the state's secretary of education, alleged that the Confucius Classrooms program—run by the Confucius…