Renaissance Learning, Inc.
Lobbying client
A Pre-K through 12 education technology company, founded in 1986 in Wisconsin and now owned by private equity firm Francisco Partners, that makes the Accelerated Reader and Star Assessments programs used in schools nationwide, including New York. It has filed 5 lobbying disclosures since 2025, retaining The Parkside Group to lobby city agencies on procurement, and it holds $10.9 million in active NYC contracts as of August 2026.
- Council members lobbied
- None named (agencies/administration)
- Filings (since 2024)
- 5
- Lobbying compensation (since 2024)
- $49,500
- Industry (per city contracts)
- Goods
- City contracts (active)
- $10,880,681 · 1 contract
- Awarded all-time
- $13,975,569 · 34 since 2006, incl. expired
- Paid to date
- $25,297,265
- Won without a fresh bid
- 87% of contract value · $12,153,070 · 3 contracts
Represented by lobbyist firms
- The Parkside Group, 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
- Procurement - Procurement
- Procurement - procurement
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).
- Renaisance Learning Educational Software Department of Education · MA104020229275000 $10,880,681
- Renaissance learning educational software Department of Education · MA104020139376296 · ended 2020 $945,000
- PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT Department of Education · MA104020099975056 · ended 2011 $625,000
- Augmentative Communication Devices. Department of Education · MA104020139372546 · ended 2014 $327,389
- Augmentative Communication Devices and Adaptive Equip. Department of Education · MA104020109077230 · ended 2012 $275,000
- Literacy Professional Development Services Department of Education · MA104020209078440 · ended 2024 $147,500
- Renaissance Learning Educational Software Department of Education · MA104020119173989 · ended 2013 $99,999
- NEGOTIATED SERVICES-SERVICES Department of Education · CT104020223088008 · ended 2022 $25,000
- NEGOTIATED SERVICES-SERVICES Department of Education · CT104020223080850 · ended 2022 $25,000
- SOLE VENDOR-COMMODITIES Department of Education · CT104020223072747 · ended 2022 $25,000
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.
- SOLE VENDOR-COMMODITIES Department of Education · FY2020 $25,000