Educator donations in the 2008 FEC cycle

Educator as occupation, 2008 as the cycle

Two FEC fields define the cell: occupation EDUCATOR and election cycle 2008. Matching rows sum to $1,304,469, 2,011 contributions, and 837 donors. 2008 is a high-receipt education-title cell, kept separate from TEACHER. The occupation hub rolls every cycle that used this spelling. The 2008 election-cycle hub rolls every occupation that filed that cycle. Neither hub restates this intersection; this tie page exists because the two dimensions meet.

Educator is a one-word education title as typed. Nearby strings — TEACHER, PROFESSOR, INSTRUCTOR, and SCHOOL ADMINISTRATOR — sit in other occupation hubs when filers used those words. Do not stack those dollar figures onto $1,304,469 or $20,047,617. TEACHER is a different high-volume key and is not added onto EDUCATOR on this page.

2008’s dollar share is 6.5% ($1,304,469 of $20,047,617). The remainder sits in other cycles on the occupation hub and is not itemized by year on this packet. Correlation between a job title and a two-year FEC window is a reporting overlap, not causation of an election outcome. Itemized individual receipts are the coverage. Unitemized money never appears in $1,304,469.

The Educator string across cycles

Under the exact label EDUCATOR, harvested individual contributions sum to $20.0 million ($20,047,617). The 2008 cell is 6.5% of that occupation total. The FEC file does not verify a teaching certificate or a district contract. A share in a presidential cycle is a slice, not proof that the remaining dollars sat in any particular other year. Those other years are not in this packet.

Educator is not a school-district payroll and not a university appointment file. Open Educator donations for the $20,047,617 roll. Open the 2008 election cycle hub for every occupation in that window. All occupations and All FEC ties place this pair beside other occupation-cycle pages without combining dollar figures.

2008 receipts and donors

Inside the 2008 cell, 2,011 itemized contributions map to 837 donors. That is about 2.4 receipts per donor in the join — a repeat-gift ratio, not a unique-person survey of everyone who holds a similar job. Dollars per receipt average about $649; dollars per donor average about $1,559. Averages hide large and small lines sitting in the same total.

Presidential-year volume can mix primary, general, and other receipts dated to 2008. This packet does not split $1,304,469 by those stages or by party. The 2008 election cycle hub shows the cycle’s full occupation mix; this page shows only the Educator row. 837 donors is a disclosure count for this key in 2008, not a turnout figure.

How to read the two dollar columns

Keep $1,304,469 attached to 2008 and $20,047,617 attached to the occupation string. Adding them would double-count the 2008 dollars that already sit inside the occupation total. Subtracting them does not yield “all other cycles”; it only yields a remainder that this packet does not itemize by year.

Cite FEC.gov. Individual contributions are not PAC independent expenditures and not lobbying registrations. Nothing in the join says donations paid for a federal award, a research grant, or a USAspending obligation. Quote $1,304,469 with both nouns: Educator and 2008.

What the Educator–2008 join does not claim

Occupation labels are filer-entered. Educator is not a school-district payroll and not a university appointment file. A person who wrote a nearby title is not in $1.3 million. A person who wrote this string is in it even if the day job differs. LobbyVault does not audit licenses. The public record is the string plus the dollars.

No motive, no vote, no ranking of occupations. Not a teaching-certificate extract, not an NEA membership roll, and not a campus headcount. Use All occupations to compare other labels; use All FEC ties for other joins. 2,011 receipts and 837 donors are the volume facts for this join.

Questions

How much did educators donate in 2008?

Filers who wrote Educator on FEC individual contribution records itemized $1,304,469 in the 2008 cycle, across 2,011 receipts from 837 donors. That cell is 6.5% of $20,047,617 harvested under the same exact occupation string. Nearby spellings are counted on other occupation pages.

Does Educator mean K-12 teachers?

The stored string is EDUCATOR. Teacher, Professor, and Instructor are other occupation keys. K-12, adjunct, and museum-education uses are not split inside EDUCATOR. The FEC file does not check a teaching certificate. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates. Educator in 2008 is $1,304,469 on 2,011 receipts from 837 donors.

What is an occupation-cycle join on LobbyVault?

It is the overlap of one self-reported occupation key and one even-numbered FEC cycle. The occupation hub holds $20.0 million for this string across cycles. The cycle hub holds every occupation that filed in 2008. This page reports only the overlapping cell, $1.3 million, so the two dimensions are not restated as one table.

Does the 2008 Educator total include PACs or party committees?

$1,304,469 is an aggregate of individual contributions whose occupation field matches this string. It is not PAC independent spending, not committee-to-committee transfers, and not a party split. This packet has no party field. Open the Educator donations hub or the 2008 election cycle hub for committee-level rows.