• Musante Strategies, LLC lobbying efforts included efforts to include minor technical corrections to the legislative language and an increase in funds allocated to the District of Columbia SOAR Act.
• Colyandro + Frank advocated to support agreement between the DOE and the Texas Education Agency to create an ongoing payment mechanism for special education students in Texas. John Schilling discussed federal school choice legislation and provisions in larger bills of interest to school choice supporters with congressional staff, including S 114 SOAR Act and annual appropriation for the act.

Duration: April 1, 2009 to July 1, 2021

General Issues: District of Columbia, Education, Taxation/Internal Revenue Code, Budget/Appropriations

Spending: about $1,120,000 (But it's complicated. Here's why.)

It can be tricky to figure out how much an organization spent on a particular lobbying engagement. The law only requires lobbyists to report the amount they were paid for federal lobbying each quarter rounded to the nearest $10,000—and if it's less than $3,000 in a given quarter (or less than $13,000 for organizations with in-house lobbyists), they don't have to disclose it at all. Plus, some organizations include spending that doesn’t belong in the report—for instance, money spent lobbying state governments or other legal work.

Agencies lobbied since 2009: Education - Dept of, U.S. Senate, House of Representatives, White House Office, Treasury - Dept of, Executive Office of the President (EOP)