• Funding for Grow Your Own Teacher program; provision related to the Fund for the Improvement of Post Secondary Education. Funding for Federal Student Assistance programs including Pell Grants. Funding for STEM programs.
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention funding for asthma education programs.
• General issues involving the Long Island University Homeland Security Management Institute

Duration: November 1, 2007 to January 31, 2013

General Issues: Education, Health Issues, Homeland Security, Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice, Environmental/Superfund

Spending: about $410,000 (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 2007: U.S. Senate, House of Representatives, Natl Science Foundation (NSF), Education - Dept of, House of Representatives, Senate, Education, Dept of, Homeland Security, Dept of (DHS), Y Y