Department of Education in Colorado
Federal obligations from Department of Education to Colorado
Total obligated
$6.09B
Awards
2K
The Department of Education shows $5,815,911,191.76 in USAspending.gov obligations coded to Colorado, across 1,716 awards. Awarding-agency 091 and Colorado (CO) are the pair. One thousand seven hundred sixteen awards sits in the Education mid-band: hundreds of awards, not hundreds of thousands. The implied mean is about $3.39 million per award — a quotient of two packet facts, not a typical project. USAspending.gov is the source. Amounts are obligations, not outlays.
Key figures
- Education in Colorado: $5,815,911,191.76 across 1,716 USAspending awards.
- Implied mean about $3.39 million per record — a packet quotient, not a typical project.
- Agency 091 × CO is not a measure of enrollment, NAEP scores, or unique districts.
- Cite obligations from USAspending.gov, not outlays.
Education awards tagged to Colorado
Department of Education as awarding agency, Colorado as place-of-performance: 1,716 records summing to $5,815,911,191.76. A Department of Education award coded outside CO is out. An award in Colorado from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Colorado (CO) excludes Wyoming, Utah, New Mexico, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Arizona. A Cheyenne-coded award is Wyoming.
One thousand seven hundred sixteen awards sits in the Education mid-band: hundreds of awards, not hundreds of thousands. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 1,716 as 1,716 unique enrollment, NAEP scores, or unique districts. The overlay Department of Education in Colorado is the both-keys table. Colorado federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Department of Education is the agency book without a CO filter. All spending ties lists other joins.
Denver, Colorado Springs, and mountain districts are unpublished. $5,815,911,191.76 is 091 × CO only. Correlation is not causation: Colorado did not “cause” $5,815,911,191.76 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 091 × CO only.
Front Range folklore is not a packet field
$5,815,911,191.76 does not measure enrollment, NAEP scores, or unique districts. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 091 and a CO place-of-performance tag.
Do not treat 1,716 awards as a census of enrollment, NAEP scores, or unique districts. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Colorado federal spending or Department of Education matched $5,815,911,191.76 and 1,716, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Utah, New Mexico, and Kansas Education joins are other pairs, not addends.
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Questions
- How much has the Department of Education obligated in Colorado?
- USAspending.gov records $5,815,911,191.76 across 1,716 awards with awarding agency 091 and a Colorado tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of enrollment, NAEP scores, or unique districts. Department of Education in Colorado is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $5,815,911,191.76.
- Is $5,815,911,191.76 a measure of enrollment, NAEP scores, or unique districts?
- No. The packet publishes $5,815,911,191.76 and 1,716 awards for agency 091 inside CO coding. Those other series are unpublished here. Unique recipients are unpublished. Quote the dollar total and the award count together. Obligations are not outlays.
- Why does this Education file have 1,716 awards?
- That is the award-record count for 091 × CO. Combined with $5,815,911,191.76, the average is about $3.39 million. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 1,716 is not unique enrollment, NAEP scores, or unique districts. Later ingests can revise the count. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.
- Where is the live table?
- Department of Education in Colorado is the overlay. Colorado federal spending and Department of Education are the parents, not addends. All spending ties lists other pairs. Keep both sides of the join when citing $5,815,911,191.76. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.
USAspending.gov aggregate of federal obligations by state and awarding agency. Obligations are not outlays.
How this pair fits
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