Career and Technical Education — Basic Grants to States — CFDA 84.048

CTE basic-grant obligations at $5.31 billion

USAspending.gov records $5,307,228,536.82 in obligations under CFDA 84.048. Three hundred eleven awards produce that stock. A simple average is about $17.1 million per award — consistent with state formula grants rather than thousands of school-level rows. That average is a quotient of two packet totals, not a typical local CTE budget.

The assistance-listing title is CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION -- BASIC GRANTS TO STATES. CFDA 84.048 is the identifier. Other education listings, if tagged under other CFDA numbers, are not included in the $5.31 billion.

USAspending.gov records the $5,307,228,536.82 obligation stock for CFDA 84.048 together with 311 awards, 54 recipients, and 53 states. Keep CTE basic grants on 84.048 when quoting these four facts. Outlays remain a separate column.

Fifty-four recipients, 53 states

Fifty-four recipients share 311 awards, or about 5.8 award records per recipient on average. Splitting $5.31 billion evenly would assign about $98.3 million per recipient. State education agencies are the unit this kind of listing usually names; the packet does not list the 54.

Fifty-three states in the geographic count show nationwide coding in the USAspending state field. CTE dollars still concentrate where allocations are large. Place-of-performance amounts are on the program table.

Award count is not a student count

Among education listings, 84.048 is mid-sparse: 311 rows against $5.31 billion. Award count is a weak proxy for “number of CTE students.” Recipients (54) are the organizational headcount; awards (311) are stored assistance rows.

The packet does not report enrollment, programs of study, or credentials. Citing 311 as schools or students would be a unit error. Keep the units straight: dollars, awards, recipients, states.

Obligations versus CTE cash

The $5.31 billion is an obligation total from USAspending.gov. Outlays — cash paid against CTE basic grants — are not in the packet. A state agency can show a large obligation stock while draws follow a grant calendar. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

Use CFDA 84.048 to size this CTE basic-grant listing. Do not use it as an enrollment dashboard. This page reports the obligation book tagged 84.048.

What the 84.048 tables omit

The CTE basic-grants hub lists award-backed obligations from USAspending.gov. It is not a student roster, not a program catalog, and not a credential file. Series that never appear as assistance awards will not show up in the $5,307,228,536.82.

Place-of-performance on 53 states is a coding field. Recipient dollars, if shown on the hub, are still obligation amounts, not cash already spent on instruction.

Where the CTE table lives

The Career and Technical Education -- Basic Grants to States program page overlays these four facts. The all-programs index ranks 84.048 among other assistance listings. Agency pages show awarding-agency rollups. For 84.048 only, start on the program page.

CFDA 84.048’s 311 awards spread $5,307,228,536.82 across 54 recipients and 53 states. Quote award count as a record count, recipient count as the organizational headcount, and dollars as obligations from USAspending.gov. About $17.1 million per award is the concentration story. Outlays remain a separate column. Source: USAspending.gov assistance awards. The four-fact citation for CFDA 84.048 is the obligation stock on this extract, together with the award, recipient, and state counts already named above. Do not convert those figures into outlays, and do not treat award count as a service census. Start on the program page for CFDA 84.048 before ranking this listing against other assistance rows. Obligations remain the reporting concept on this extract; outlays are not stored in the packet facts. Award count is a record count; recipient count is the organizational headcount; the state figure is a coded-jurisdiction count from USAspending.gov. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the obligation stock; this page does not publish remaining balances. Internal links on this overlay point to the program page, the all-programs index, and agency rollups. SpendingVault indexes USAspending.gov assistance awards; it does not convert this CFDA into a performance scorecard. If a number you expected is missing, the usual cause is a different reporting concept than obligations on assistance awards.

Questions

How much is obligated for CTE basic grants to states?

USAspending.gov records $5,307,228,536.82 in obligations for CFDA 84.048. SpendingVault indexes 311 awards, 54 recipients, and 53 states. The figure is an obligation sum, not an outlay and not a student count. CFDA 84.048’s $5.31 billion is the USAspending obligation stock.

How many awards does CFDA 84.048 carry?

The listing shows 311 awards against 54 recipients. A simple average is about $17.1 million per award. Award count is not a school or student count. Recipient dollars are on the program page. USAspending.gov assistance awards on SpendingVault are the source for this obligation stock.

How many recipients appear on CFDA 84.048?

The extract lists 54 recipients on assistance awards tagged 84.048. Geographic coding covers 53 states. The packet does not name the 54 or publish enrollment. Recipient count is the organizational headcount. USAspending.gov assistance awards on SpendingVault are the source for this obligation stock.

Is $5.31 billion already spent on career and technical education?

Not necessarily. Obligations are commitments. Outlays are payments. CFDA 84.048’s indexed total is the obligation stock from USAspending.gov. This page does not report cash drawn or credentials awarded. The $5.31 billion on 311 awards is the obligation figure. USAspending.gov assistance awards on SpendingVault are the source for this obligation stock.