• Contacted the Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools regarding the timing of the release of the Foundations for Learning Grant program; Contacted the Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools regarding the release of the Emergency Management for Higher Education Program Contacted the Office of Post-Secondary Education to obtain specific information on the Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship Program Contacted the Office of Post-Secondary Education regarding the funding levels for the TRIO / Upward Bound programs

Duration: January 1, 2008 to December 31, 2023

General Issues: Education, Budget/Appropriations, Government Issues

Spending: about $280,000 (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 2008: Education - Dept of, House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, Energy - Dept of, Defense - Dept of (DOD)