Special Education Grants to States in New Jersey

IDEA Part B meeting New Jersey

CFDA 84.027 is titled SPECIAL EDUCATION GRANTS TO STATES. Crossed with New Jersey place of performance, the obligation sum is $2,557,683,159.87 on 7 awards. The national 84.027 page has no New Jersey filter. The New Jersey spending page has no CFDA filter. Only the intersection is reported here.

Formula grants to states often appear as a handful of large assistance awards rather than thousands of district invoices. The join does not name the New Jersey Department of Education, list districts, or count individualized education programs. Packet facts are dollars, award count, state, and CFDA.

Readers sometimes treat a large CFDA–state total as if it were a budget line the state legislature passed. $2,557,683,159.87 is not that. It is the USAspending obligation sum on awards tagged 84.027 and NJ. 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 New Jersey against other states on need, performance, or politics.

Seven awards totaling $2,557,683,159.87 (about $365.38 million mean) is IDEA Part B tagged New Jersey. District allocations are downstream. School lunch and CHIP in the same state are other CFDA numbers.

84.027 versus other New Jersey catalogs

School lunch, transit formula, Housing Choice Vouchers, CHIP, and 1332 waivers use other CFDA numbers. Adding those to $2,557,683,159.87 would invent a broader education-and-services total than this cell supports. Preschool special-education catalogs, if present, would also sit elsewhere.

Available facts: New Jersey, CFDA 84.027, $2,557,683,159.87, 7 awards. Child counts, disability categories, and maintenance-of-effort calculations are not in the facts. The catalog title is the program name, not a verdict on New Jersey special-education quality.

The only numeric facts on this packet are $2,557,683,159.87, 7 awards, CFDA 84.027, program title Special Education Grants To States, and geography NJ/New Jersey. Any other dollar, year, recipient, or percentage would be invented. Trivial arithmetic from those facts is allowed: 7 awards into $2,557,683,159.87 is about $365.38 million per award. That quotient is a mean of records, not a typical household, student, or lab.

Seven-award IDEA cells look alike across states; the dollars differ. This page’s facts are $2,557,683,159.87 and 7 for New Jersey. Do not import another state’s total.

Questions

How much Special Education Grants to States funding is obligated in New Jersey?

USAspending records $2,557,683,159.87 in CFDA 84.027 obligations with New Jersey place of performance across 7 awards. That is the pair total, not an outlay and not every education CFDA.

Why are there only 7 awards?

The facts show 7 awards totaling $2,557,683,159.87. State formula grants often post a small number of large instruments. District-level allocations are not in the packet facts.

Is this all federal education spending in New Jersey?

No. This join is CFDA 84.027 only. Other Education Department catalogs use other numbers and appear on separate New Jersey program pages.

What is the average award size?

About $365.4 million per award ($2,557,683,159.87 ÷ 7). That mean is an agency-scale figure, not a typical school’s special-education budget.