The College Board
Lobbying client
The College Board is the nonprofit organization known for running the SAT and Advanced Placement (AP) exams, along with college-planning tools used by high schools nationwide. In New York City it has filed 15 lobbying disclosures since 2024 and reported contact with all 51 City Council members through the firm Constantinople & Vallone Consulting, on subjects tied to the education budget and expanding student access to its AP and college-readiness programs in city schools.
- Council members lobbied
- 51 (citywide)
- Filings (since 2024)
- 15
- Lobbying compensation (since 2024)
- $270,000
- Industry (per city contracts)
- Human Services
- City contracts (active)
- $18,618,788 · 3 contracts
- Awarded all-time
- $105,734,826 · 128 since 2009, incl. expired
- Paid to date
- $52,664,566
- Won without a fresh bid
- 93% of contract value · $98,246,147 · 11 contracts
Represented by lobbyist firms
- Constantinople & Vallone Consulting LLC Lobbyist firm
Holds contracts at
- Department of Education City agency
Funded by these agencies
- Department of Education City agency
What they lobbied on
subjects from their filings
- Budget - Education - General
- Budget - Lobbying - C&V works with the College Board to expand opportunities for students to excel in High School and to achieve college entrance and college graduation. We work with the Board of…
City contracts
Registered city contracts, largest first by current contract value (not amount spent): running now, then registered to start later, then ended. Totals count every registered contract. Each line shows its Checkbook contract ID. The tag on each row is how it was awarded (“no-bid” = non-competitive).
- SAT, PSAT and PSAT/NMSQT Test Materials and Services Department of Education · MA104020259576545 $18,152,000
- AP Professional Development Services and Workshops Department of Education · CT104020269657565 $441,788
- YEAR-END PRIOR YEAR CANCELLATIONS Department of Education · CT104020253095728 $25,000
- Advanced Placement Assessment Materials Department of Education · MA104020249477096 · ended 2025 $23,955,018
- SAT/PSAT/NMSQT TEST MATERIALS AND SERVICES Department of Education · MA104020209078980 · ended 2023 $20,401,500
- Advanced Placement Assessment Materials Department of Education · MA104020179775006 · ended 2019 $15,056,118
- Advanced Placement Assessment Materials Department of Education · MA104020229278765 · ended 2022 $8,166,754
- College Board to provide Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Tes Department of Education · CT104020109056465 · ended 2012 $4,028,000
- Advanced Placement Assessment Materials Department of Education · MA104020229276200 · ended 2021 $3,510,455
- Provision of advanced placement assessment materials. Department of Education · MA104020219177901 · ended 2020 $3,500,000
Largest payments, by purpose
The organization's largest individual city payments (roughly $25,000 and up), grouped by purpose, to show what recent money was for. This is NOT a total — smaller payments aren't listed; see “Paid to date” above for the complete amount paid against its contracts. Fiscal years 2020 and later.
- AP Professional Development and Workshops Department of Education · FY2020 · 2 payments $412,053
- AP Professional Development Services and Workshops Department of Education · FY2026 · 2 payments $165,720
- AP Professional Development and Workshops Department of Education · FY2024 $149,080
- AP Professional Development and Workshops Department of Education · FY2023 $103,040
- SOLE VENDOR-COMMODITIES Department of Education · FY2026 · 3 payments $75,000
- AP Professional Development and Workshops Department of Education · FY2021 $38,500
- -COMMODITIES Department of Education · FY2022 $25,000