LittleSis: US Department of Education

Relationships Interlocks Giving Data

Leadership & Staff

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Miguel Cardona Connecticut education commissioner

• secretary (Jan '21→?)

Kenneth L Marcus Trump Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights, Department of Education

• assistant secretary for civil rights (Jun '18→?)

James W Runcie COO, Federal student aid, Department of ED

• COO, federal student aid ('11→?)

John B. King, Jr. senior advisor to Arne Duncan; former NYS Commissioner of Education

• delegated deputy secretary

Jonathan Schorr Seneca Capital Group

• Deputy Assistant Secretary for Communication Development

Ted Mitchell US Under Secretary of Education; former Chief Executive Officer, NewSchools Venture Fund

• U.S. Undersecretary of Education (May '14→'17)*

Scott D Pearson Associate Assistant Deputy Secretary of Education; director of DoE's Charter School Program

• Associate Assistant Deputy Secretary

Hal Payne VP for Student Affairs, Buffalo State College

• Consultant

Margaret Spellings President, University of North Carolina System; Secretary of Education under George W Bush; helped craft No Child Left Behind

• Secretary of Education (Jan 20 '05→?)

Amanda Hughes VP, Angelo Gordon & Co

• congressional liaison

Board Members

Mark Yudof Former President of UC school system

• Advisory Board Term Member, National Institute for Literacy (past)

Donors

Walton Family Foundation Inc Philanthropic foundation affiliated with family that owns Walmart

• Donation/Grant · 46,780 USD ('15→'16)

Blockchain Education Initiative, American Council on Education US Department of Education Funded Research Program on Blockchain In Higher Ed

• Funder ('20)

Voluntary Pre-K Pay for Success Pyramid Feasibility Study Minnesota Study by SRI International

• Funder ('16)

Center for Education Research Harvard Promoting Data-Driven Technology Based Education

• Grant

Donations

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PBS Kids Media Brand of PBS / Corporation for Public Broadcasting

• Grant · 100,000,000 USD

National Institute for School Leadership (NISL) Carnegie Funded Ed Reform Training Program Affiliated with NCEE, Marc Tucker

• Grant · 22,000,000 USD ('15→'16)

Democracy Prep Franchise Charter School Based in New York City

• Grant · 12,700,000 USD ('16) [+1]

• Grant · 9,100,000 USD ('12)

Civic Builders

• Grant · 8,300,000 USD ('08)

Education Analytics Inc

• Payment · 7,700,000 USD

Spreading Educator to Educator Developments (SEED) US Department of Ed Pushing Tech To Maine Teachers Late 1990s

• Grant · 6,800,000 USD ('99)

Social Finance 501c3 promoting Social Impact Bonds

• Grant · 2,000,000 USD ('16)

Jobs for the Future

• Grant · 2,000,000 USD ('16)

Chicago Public Schools Chicago public school system

• Grant · 349,851 USD (Oct 9 '14)

National Public Radio Non-profit membership media organization that serves public radio stations

• Grant · 250,000 USD ('09)

Holdings

Office of Educational Technology

• Owner

Child Organizations

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National Assessment of Educational Progress

• subgroup*

Office of Legislative and Congressional Affairs U.S. Department of Education

• Child Org

Office of Postsecondary Education U.S. Department of Education

• Child Org

Office of Special Education Program (OSEP) US Department of Education

• Child Org*

Pay For Success English Language Learners One Of The First Pay For Success Project Under ESSA

• Child Org ('16→?)*

EdSim Challenge 2015 US DOE Contest for Online Gamified Learning, VR

• Child Org ('15→?)*

Rethink K-12 Education Models (REM) Grant US DOE Part of Covid CARES Act

• Child Org (Jul 29 '20→?)*

Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development, US DOE Grants, EdTech and Student Privacy

• Child Org*

Second Chance Pell Grant Program Reentry Education Program Started By Obama

• Child Org ('16→?)*

National Center for Innovation in Career and Technical Education US DOE Research Effort Managed by RTI International

• Child Org*

Parents

Executive Branch Led by the president and vice president

• Parent Org

Members

Anugerah Pekerti

• Member*

Memberships

Education Design Lab Non Profit Promoting Disruption of Higher Ed for Workforce Alignment

• Partner*

Joint Declaration of Intent on Vocational Training (US Adoption Swiss Apprenticeship Model) Facilitated by Suzan LeVine, Former Microsoft, As Swiss Ambassador

• Signatory ('16→?)*

Federal Interagency Council on Social Impact Partnerships federal social impact bond entity

• Member

Career Pathways Program US government program created and run by 13 federal departments

• Member

Services & Transactions

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Affiliated Computer Services Data management services.

• Contractor · 902,600,003 USD ('04→'07)

Performant Financial Corporation Formerly Diversified Collection Services

• contractor · 400,000,000 USD ('18→?) [+1]

• debt collector · 31,376,249 USD ('12)

Windham Professionals Private debt collector

• contractor · 400,000,000 USD (?→'18)*

Computer Sciences Corporation Provides IT services to industry and government

• Contractor · 272,962,473 USD ('04→'07)

Perot Systems Information Technology Services Company, Plano, TX

• Contractor · 58,472,597 USD ('07)

Lockheed Martin Corporation Defense, aeronautics, and systems engineering company

• Contractor · 50,192,744 USD ('03→'07)

Oracle Corporation Information Management

• Contractor · 7,159,552 USD ('04→'07)

United Parcel Service, Inc. American multinational shipping, supply chain management company

• Contractor · 4,183,148 USD ('04→'08)

Raytheon Company Defense contractor; merged with UTC. Surviving company exists as a subsidiary of the renamed UTC, company, Raytheon Technologies

• Contractor · 3,879,507 USD ('03)

CA Technologies IT Management Software Provider acquired by Broadcom Inc.

• Contractor · 2,790,868 USD ('04→'07)

Lobbied By

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MassMutual Financial Group

• Direct Lobbying ('02)

Wexler & Walker Public Policy Associates Since 1981, Wexler & Walker Public Policy Associates has helped Fortune 500 companies, trade associations and other clients impact public policy as Washington’s top full service government affairs fir

• Lobbying (for client) ('99)

Akin Gump Large law and lobbying firm; founded by Robert Strauss in 1945

• Lobbying (for client) ('06→'08)

Bracewell LLP Texas law firm; formerly Bracewell & Giuliani

• Lobbying (for client) ('03→'06)

Podesta Group Inc Lobby firm, dubbed “a king of K Street” by POLITICO

• Lobbying (for client) ('00→'08)

QGA Public Affairs Lobby shop

• Lobbying (for client) ('06→'08)

Dean Blakey Washington, DC Law Firm

• Lobbying (for client) ('02→'05)

Nelnet Student Loan Programs