Head Start in Michigan

Head Start dollars tagged to Michigan

CFDA 93.600 (HEAD START) plus Michigan place of performance sums to $2,642,541,099.38 on 147 awards. The national Head Start hub includes every state. The Michigan spending hub includes every program. This tie is the intersection.

One hundred forty-seven awards is a local-grantee pattern rather than a single statewide block. The join does not name those grantees, split Detroit from the Upper Peninsula, or count funded slots. Packet facts are $2,642,541,099.38, 147 awards, MI, and 93.600.

Readers sometimes treat a large CFDA–state total as if it were a budget line the state legislature passed. $2,642,541,099.38 is not that. It is the USAspending obligation sum on awards tagged 93.600 and MI. The overlay table at the program-in-state path is the same cell rendered as a page; this narrative is the join explained in prose. Nothing here ranks Michigan against other states on need, performance, or politics.

One hundred forty-seven awards totaling $2,642,541,099.38 (about $17.98 million mean) is Head Start tagged Michigan. Detroit is not isolated. CCDBG is a different CFDA. Site counts are not equal to award counts.

93.600 versus Michigan’s child-care block grant

Head Start and the Child Care and Development Block Grant are different CFDA numbers. Mixing CCDBG into $2,642,541,099.38 would overstate this cell. Other HHS catalogs in Michigan sit on separate program pages.

Facts on this page: Michigan, CFDA 93.600, $2,642,541,099.38, 147 awards. Enrollment, CLASS scores, and facility addresses are not in the facts. The catalog title names Head Start, not a school-readiness ranking.

The only numeric facts on this packet are $2,642,541,099.38, 147 awards, CFDA 93.600, program title Head Start, and geography MI/Michigan. Any other dollar, year, recipient, or percentage would be invented. Trivial arithmetic from those facts is allowed: 147 awards into $2,642,541,099.38 is about $17.98 million per award. That quotient is a mean of records, not a typical household, student, or lab.

Michigan CCDBG is a sibling early-childhood catalog with a different CFDA and a different award count. $2,642,541,099.38 is Head Start only. Do not add the two cells and call the sum “child care.”

Questions

How much Head Start funding is obligated in Michigan?

USAspending records $2,642,541,099.38 in CFDA 93.600 obligations with Michigan place of performance across 147 awards. That is the pair aggregate, not an outlay and not the Child Care Block Grant.

Does 147 awards mean 147 centers?

No. The facts report 147 awards totaling $2,642,541,099.38. A grantee can operate multiple sites. Site counts are not in the packet facts.

Is this the same as Michigan’s child-care block grant?

No. CCDBG uses a different CFDA number. This page is 93.600 only.

What is the average award?

About $18.0 million ($2,642,541,099.38 ÷ 147). That mean is not a per-child cost.