Educator donations in the 2012 FEC cycle

Educator × 2012

EDUCATOR plus cycle 2012 equals $1,516,276. Teacher, professor, and law professor are other keys. This page does not build a K-12-plus-campus total from those rows.

Parent hubs: Educator donations and the 2012 election cycle. All FEC ties keeps the one-word Educator cell distinct from teacher and professor joins.

The occupation hub for Educator lists $20.0 million ($20,047,617) under the exact string EDUCATOR. The 2012 election-cycle hub is a different cut: every occupation that filed in 2012, not only this label. This ties page is the cell where those two filters meet. All occupations and All FEC ties keep sibling joins in the same directory so a reader can move without mixing totals.

Party, committee, and employer breakdowns for Educator in 2012 are not fields in this packet. Do not infer a partisan split from $1.5 million. The occupation page and the 2012 cycle page are the next clicks for named committees and other cuts.

A broad school-world label

$20.0 million ($20,047,617) under EDUCATOR is a pile of identical strings, not an NEA membership file. People who wrote teacher or professor split off when those words appear. This extract does not recode job titles into one education labor market.

The 2012 slice is 7.6% of that one-word bucket. Other cycle amounts are not listed here.

Amended individual contribution reports can move $1,516,276. A later harvest of the same occupation string can move $20,047,617. Rewrite only the sentence whose source moved. Live Educator donations and the live 2012 election cycle pages are the tables; this prose is a packet snapshot.

Itemized individual contributions are the only receipt class in this cell. Unitemized gifts below the itemization threshold, in-kind goods, and bundled contributions without this occupation string are outside $1,516,276. If a later harvest revises 2,340 or 953, revise the volume sentence and leave the occupation rollup ($20,047,617) unchanged unless that rollup moved too.

2,340 educator receipts in 2012

953 donors and 2,340 receipts — about 2.5 lines per donor, a higher receipts-per-donor ratio than many professional keys. Mean per receipt about $648; mean per donor about $1,591. A high line count can still hide large checks. No median.

Repeat itemizations to several committees inflate 2,340 faster than 953. That is a filing pattern, not a claim about education policy.

2,340 is a receipt count. 953 is a distinct-donor count inside this occupation-cycle cell. Neither figure is a headcount of everyone who works in the field named by the string. People who left the occupation blank, used a nearby spelling, or listed a more specific title are not in $1.5 million.

Educator is not teacher plus professor

Cite $1,516,276 as Educator in 2012. Cite $20,047,617 as the EDUCATOR occupation total. Do not add teacher or professor dollars to either figure, and do not add union PAC independent spending.

FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates. All occupations lists neighboring school-and-campus titles.

Dividing $1,516,276 by 2,340 receipts yields about $648 per line. Dividing by 953 donors yields about $1,591 per person in the cell. Those ratios are arithmetic on two harvested integers. They are not medians, not typical gifts, and not a claim about income.

Not a union or certification census

Educator does not mean certified teacher, tenured faculty, or union member. It means the occupation box said EDUCATOR. Filers who wrote teacher are outside $1.5 million if that is a different string.

No ranking of school jobs, no party split, no claim about education legislation. 2,340 receipts and 953 donors are the volume facts.

FEC.gov individual contribution files carry the occupation as the filer typed it. This join does not recode EDUCATOR into a Bureau of Labor Statistics title, a NAICS code, or a medical-board specialty. If a researcher needs those crosswalks, they start from the raw string and do the mapping themselves.

Questions

How much did educators donate in 2012?

Filers who listed Educator itemized $1,516,276 in FEC individual contributions in 2012, from 2,340 receipts and 953 donors. That is 7.6% of $20,047,617 under EDUCATOR. Teacher and professor are other keys when those are the words on the form.

Is Educator the same as teacher in FEC data?

Only if the typed characters match. This join uses EDUCATOR. Teacher, professor, and law professor are other strings. LobbyVault does not recode school titles. Cite $1.5 million for this key in 2012. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates. Educator in 2012 is $1,516,276 on 2,340 receipts from 953 donors.

Does this include teachers-union PACs?

No. $1,516,276 is individual contributions tagged Educator. Union PACs file as committees. Mixing PAC independent spending with this cell would blend FEC tables. See Educator donations or the 2012 cycle hub for committee names. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates. Educator in 2012 is $1,516,276 on 2,340 receipts from 953 donors.

What two tables meet on this page?

Educator donations ($20.0 million for the string) and the 2012 election cycle. The overlap is $1,516,276 from 2,340 receipts. All FEC ties lists other occupation-cycle cells. All occupations lists neighboring school titles. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates. Educator in 2012 is $1,516,276 on 2,340 receipts from 953 donors.