Teacher political contributions in the 2010 FEC cycle

Teacher and the 2010 cycle as two FEC filters

Occupation TEACHER and cycle 2010 produce $2,499,065, 3,649 contributions, and 1,886 donors. The occupation nationwide across cycles is $92,518,340. Dollar share for 2010 is 2.7%. 3,649 contributions from 1,886 donors is moderate repeat itemization inside the cycle filter. Contribution count is not a headcount of people who hold the job.

The join is a filter pair, not a causal story. TEACHER is the occupation string. Professor, educator, or retired teacher, if typed that way, are other buckets. Union independent expenditures are a different FEC category and are not inside this occupation-cycle join. The 2010 cycle is an even-year FEC window, a midterm-year cycle in federal itemized receipts. This page does not add later cycles into the 2010 dollars. Independent expenditures, unitemized gifts, and committee-to-committee transfers are outside $2,499,065.

2.7% of $92,518,340 is $2,499,065. That arithmetic uses only the occupation total and the cycle total in this packet. It is not a forecast and not a party split. Recipient committees may be anywhere; cycle is the FEC even-year window, not the donor’s state.

Teacher as an occupation string

Teacher donations is the occupation hub: $92,518,340 across cycles from filers who typed TEACHER. Sibling strings (PROFESSOR, EDUCATOR, and RETIRED TEACHER) are not merged here. The occupation total is not a union independent-expenditure total, a credential census, or a school-board PAC.

The 2010 cycle filter on Teacher receipts

The 2010 election cycle hub holds itemized individual receipts for every occupation coded to that even-year window. This tie keeps only Teacher. $2,499,065 is therefore not a cycle-wide total. FEC.gov labels this even-year federal window 2010. It is not a 2012 presidential-year filter or a 2014 midterm-year filter.

3,649 contributions from 1,886 donors is moderate repeat itemization inside the cycle filter. The page does not publish an average gift. $2,499,065, 3,649, and 1,886 are the three cycle-side facts. Unitemized federal gifts never enter $2,499,065. Committee disbursements and independent expenditures are a different FEC schedule and are not a second way to count $2,499,065. Three numbers define the Teacher × 2010 cell: dollars $2,499,065, contribution rows 3,649, unique donors 1,886. Share of occupation dollars is 2.7% of $92,518,340.

What the Teacher–2010 join is not

Matching Teacher with 2010 does not measure influence, does not assign party, and does not say Teacher donors caused an electoral result. Correlation between an occupation string and a cycle is not causation. The table is also not a union independent-expenditure total, a credential census, or a school-board PAC.

Itemized individual contributions from FEC.gov only. Independent expenditures, unitemized gifts, and state-office campaigns are excluded. Occupation labels are filer-entered. TEACHER is the occupation string. Professor, educator, or retired teacher, if typed that way, are other buckets. Union independent expenditures are a different FEC category and are not inside this occupation-cycle join. This join does not publish a party split, a recipient-committee list, or employer text. If a reader only needs the occupation, the Teacher donations hub is $92,518,340; the 2010 election cycle hub is the even-year inventory across titles. Do not add those hubs together.

Linked Teacher and 2010 pages

Teacher donations holds the $92,518,340 occupation total. The 2010 election cycle page holds every occupation in that window, not only Teacher. All occupations places TEACHER beside other titles without merging sibling strings (PROFESSOR, EDUCATOR, and RETIRED TEACHER). All FEC ties lists other occupation-cycle pairs so $2,499,065 is not added to a different year.

Use the occupation hub for all-cycle Teacher dollars ($92,518,340). Use the 2010 cycle hub for the even-year window across titles. Use this tie for the intersection only: $2,499,065, 3,649 contributions, 1,886 donors, 2.7% of occupation dollars. Those four internal links are the only hrefs this copy may use: Teacher donations, the 2010 election cycle, all occupations, and all FEC ties.

Teacher 2010 as a dollar-share slice

2010 is a thin slice of Teacher occupation dollars: 2.7% ($2,499,065 of $92,518,340). The occupation hub is much larger than this one cycle. $2.5 million is the same fact as $2,499,065 rounded to one decimal million, not a second extract. Do not add PROFESSOR dollars into $2,499,065.

Researchers who need employer text or recipient committees should leave this join and open the Teacher donations table. The 2010 cycle page is the even-year inventory. FEC.gov remains the controlling filing if extracts diverge.

Questions

How much did Teacher donors give in 2010?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation TEACHER in the 2010 cycle total $2,499,065, from 3,649 contributions and 1,886 donors. Nationwide across cycles, Teacher-coded receipts are $92,518,340. 2010 is 2.7% of those occupation dollars. Source: FEC.gov.

Is Teacher 2010 money a PAC total?

No. This join is itemized individual contributions grouped by occupation and election cycle. Committee PACs and independent expenditures are not in $2,499,065 or in the $92,518,340 occupation figure used here. The join is itemized individual contributions tagged TEACHER, not union independent expenditures. The 2010 join is $2,499,065 from 3,649 contributions and 1,886 donors.

Is this teachers’ union PAC spending?

No. The join is itemized individual contributions tagged TEACHER, not union independent expenditures. The 2010 cycle filter on Teacher is $2,499,065, 3,649 contributions, and 1,886 donors. The occupation total across cycles is $92,518,340. Labels are filer-entered on FEC.gov itemized receipts.

Why 3,649 Teacher contributions and 1,886 donors in 2010?

The 2010 join includes 3,649 itemized contributions from 1,886 donors totaling $2,499,065. 3,649 contributions from 1,886 donors is moderate repeat itemization inside the cycle filter. The page does not name donors or split rows by committee. Unique-donor count is not a census of the occupation.