ORGANIZATION

National Education Association

trade association · DC

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30LDA FILINGS

19LOBBYISTS

0FLY-INS

Federal Lobbying Spend

$3.7M

Total LDA-disclosed spend (in-house + retained) across all reported periods.

Most recent LDA filing posted April 2026.

Likely Asks (from LD-2 filings)

supportStaff Act×11

supportof College Transparency and JOBS Acts×1

Topics in Filings

199

Policy topics named in LD-2 filings. This org's filings are topical rather than positional — these are the issues it's actively lobbying on, even without a stated verb of position.

Secure Rural Schools Reauthorization×26

Federal tax issues×12

Impacting educators×12

Improving Training for School Food Service Workers Act×12

National Education Association Charter Repeal Act×10

One Big Beautiful Bill Act×10

General higher education issues×9

National Defense Authorization Act×9

Augustus F×8

Lowey 21st Century Community Learning Centers×8

Pay Paraprofessional and Support Staff Act×8

STUDENT Act×7

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Assistance for Arts Education×6

DC Income & Freedom Tax Conformity & Revision Temporary Amendment Act×6

Department of Education Funding×6

H.J.Res. 142×6

Hawkins Centers of Excellence program×6

IDEA Part D Personnel Preparation program×6

Individuals with Disabilities Education Act×6

Nita M×6

No Tax on Restored Benefits Act×6

Teacher Quality Partnerships program×6

Paraprofessionals and Education Support Staff Family Leave Act×5

Department of Education Protection Act×4

Federal Funding Education Policy×4

II, and IV-A×4

Preparing And Retaining All×4

Training for School Food Service Workers Act×4

Arts education×3

Arts Education for All Act×3

Educational Equity Challenge Grant Act×3

Expanding Access to Mental Health Services in Schools Act×3

Federal data collection and reporting×3

Food & National Security Act×3

FY 2025 appropriations for ESSA Titles I×3

FY 2026 Interior-Environment appropriations bill×3

FY 2026 Labor-HHS-Education appropriations bill×3

FY2027 National Defense Authorization Act×3

FY26 Appropriations FY27 Appropriations×3

FY26 DHS Funding×3

GRADUATE Act×3

HBCU Arts Education Act×3

Healthy Families Act×3

IDEA Full Funding Act×3

INVEST Act×3

Loan Equity for Advanced Professionals Act×3

Military Dependents School Meal Eligibility Act×3

Music education×3

National Defense Auth×3

Open Books×3

Open Doors Act×3

Pay Paraprofessionals & Support Staff Act×3

Pay Paraprofessionals and Education Support Staff Act×3

Pregnant Students Rights Act×3

Professional Degree Access Restoration Act×3

RAISE Act×3

Rebuild America's Schools Act×3

Reimagining Inclusive Arts Education Act×3

Res. 273×3

Res. 509/ S×3

Restarting Education After Disasters Act×3

SAVE America Act×3

TEACH Act×3

Teacher recruitment and retention×3

Veterans Accessibility Advisory Committee Act×3

302b allocations for FY 2026×2

Administrative actions impacting Perkins V×2

Advancement, and Increasing Support for Educators×2

Affordable College Textbooks Act×2

Asuncion Valdivia Heat Illness and Fatalities Prevention Act×2

Black Music Month resolutions×2

Clean Energy Workforce Act×2

DUAL Act×2

Eliminate School 5 Lunch Junk Fees Act×2

ESEA×2

Funding for the Carl D×2

IV-A, and the Nita M×2

Nita Lowey 21st Century Community Learning Centers×2

No Cuts to Public Schools Act×2

OMB withholding of funds for Titles I×2

PARA Educators Act×2

Perkins Career and Technical Education Act×2

Protect America's Workforce Act×2

PROTECT Kids Act×2

Protecting Health Care and Lowering Costs Act×2

Protecting Women and Girls in Sports Act×2

Recognizing the 10th Anniversary of Educators Rising×2

Reorganizing Government Act×2

RES 133×2

Res. 158×2

Res. 297×2

RETAIN Act×2

Short-term Pell Grants×2

Social Security 2100 Act×2

Access to AEDs Act×1

Adjunct Faculty Loan Fairness Act×1

Administrative Improvements Act×1

Advocacy in support of College Transparency and JOBS Acts×1

Antisemitism Awareness Act×1

Arts in Education×1

Bill to exclude certain land from the John H×1

Budget allocation for the National Endowment for the Arts×1

Budget Resolution for FY2025 H.RES 379×1

Chafee Coastal Barrier Resources System×1

Child Care for Working Families Act×1

Child Nutrition-SNAP DIPLOMA ACT×1

Child Nutrition-SNAP ESP Family Act×1

Children's Future Act×1

Closing the College Hunger Gap Act×1

Concurrent resolution reaffirming Senate Resolution S×1

Consolidated Appropriations Act×1

Continuing Appropriations×1

Defund National Endowment for the Humanities Act×1

Department of Education funding & administration of programs×1

Department of Energy Standardization Act×1

DETERRENT Act×1

DoDEA SCHOOLS ISSUES×1

DoDEA Transfer Program Early Education & CCDBG ESEA×1

DREAM AND PROMISE ACT×1

Education Funding×1

Education Support Staff Family Leave Act×1

Educational Choice for Children Act×1

Empowering Striking Workers Act×1

ESP Family Act×1

Expanding Head Start Eligibility Act×1

Expediting Federal Broadband Deployment Reviews Act×1

FACTS Act×1

FAMILY Act×1

Faster Labor Contracts Act×1

FMLA SPOUSAL FIX Food Security for American Families and Farmers Act×1

Full Service Community School Expansion Act×1

FY 2026 appropriations for ESSA Titles I×1

FY25 Funding for Perkins V×1

H.RES 237×1

H.RES 267×1

Hands Off Medicaid and SNAP Act×1

Hawkins Center for Excellence×1

Hawkins Program×1

HCONRES 14×1

Healthy Schools Act×1

HHS Secretary Nominations×1

Historically Black College and Universities Act×1

II, and IV×1

Immigration Reform×1

Individuals with Disabilities Act×1

Job Training×1

Labor-HHS Appropriations Bill×1

Legislative Branch×1

LEOSA Reform×1

Lower Health Care Premiums for All Americans Act×1

Mathematical and Statistical Modeling Education Act×1

Music In Our Schools Month Resolution×1

NEA Funding×1

No Hungry Kids in School Act×1

No Shame In School Act×1

ONE BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL×1

Paid Family Leave Workforce Investment Act×1

Paraprofessional & Education Support Staff Bill of Rights Universal School meals×1

PEER Mental Health Act×1

Pell Grant Sustainability Act×1

Perkins regulations×1

PLAN for School Safety Act×1

POST Act×1

Preserving Presidential Management Authority Act×1

Prevent Interruptions in Physical Therapy Act×1

PROTECT Students Act×1

Protecting Children Act×1

Protecting our Students in Schools Act×1

Protecting Students on Campus Act×1

Protecting Taxpayers Wallets Act×1

Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act×1

PSLF Payment Completion Fairness Act×1

Re-introduction ESP FMLA bill ESP wage bill ESPs/Para Educators×1

RES 159×1

Res 187×1

RES 237×1

RES 267×1

RES 96×1

Res. 179 and House Resolution H×1

Retirement Security×1

Right to Read Act×1

RISE Act×1

SAVE Act×1

Say No to Indoctrination Act×1

See the Board Act×1

SERVICE Act×1

SOAR×1

SOAR H.R. 1×1

Social Security×1

Social Security Fairness Act×1

Summer Meals REACH Act×1

Teacher and School Leader Quality Partnership Grants Act×1

Teacher Education Assistance for College and Higher Education×1

Teacher Quality Partnership Program×1

Teachers Are Leaders Act×1

TUTOR Act×1

Universal School Meals Bill×1

WIOA reauthorization×1

Workforce Investment Act×1

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Lobbyists on Record

KATHERINE COTTON · Todd Strategy Groupformer Staff Assistant, Legislative Correspondent, Leg…

JAMES DENNIS · Rock Creek Counselformer Counsel to Sen. Jeff Bingaman

AUSTIN HARRISON · Squire Patton Boggsformer March 2009: Intern for Cong. Gregg Harper; May-…

AMANDA KARHUSE · National Association for Music Educationformer House of Representatives, Legislative Assistant

PETER OPPENHEIM · Todd Strategy Groupformer General Counsel, Senate HELP Committee; Asst. S…

JOYE BARKSDALE · National Education Association

CHRISTIN DRISCOLL · National Education Association

MARCUS EGAN · National Education Association

ZACHARY KEITA · National Association for Music Education

DEBORAH KOOLBECK · National Education Association

RONNY LAU · National Education Association

BARBARA MOLDAUER · National Education Association

+ 7 more lobbyists on record