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Department of Education in Pennsylvania

Federal obligations from Department of Education to Pennsylvania

Total obligated

$12.51B

Awards

4K

USAspending.gov records $11,542,176,588.74 in Department of Education obligations under awarding agency 091 with place of performance in Pennsylvania, across 4,019 awards. Pennsylvania’s Education cell is a mid-file case in this slice: 4,019 awards against a $11.54 billion obligation sum. That arithmetic sits between thin Energy-style books and the thickest USDA action files. The pair is Department of Education and Pennsylvania — not Pennsylvania’s entire federal inflow and not cash already paid. Average obligation is about $2.87 million ($11,542,176,588.74 ÷ 4,019).

Key figures

  • Education in Pennsylvania: $11,542,176,588.74 across 4,019 USAspending awards.
  • Implied mean about $2.87 million per record, not a typical award size.
  • Agency 091 × PA is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a program split.
  • Cite USAspending.gov; quote Department of Education in Pennsylvania if the live table moved.
  • Pennsylvania federal spending and Department of Education are parents, not amounts to add into $11,542,176,588.74.

What the Education–Pennsylvania join is

Awarding agency 091 and place-of-performance state PA meet here. $11,542,176,588.74 is the USAspending.gov obligation sum on awards that carry both tags. It is not Department of Education’s nationwide total, not every federal dollar coded to Pennsylvania, and not an outlay register. Education grants, loans, and related assistance instruments can all sit under awarding agency 091. The packet does not split K-12, higher-education, or other Education accounts. 4,019 is a mid-size action file: modifications and repeat awards add rows. Unique recipients are unpublished.

Dividing $11,542,176,588.74 by 4,019 yields about $2.87 million per award on average. That ratio is two packet facts. It is not a typical contract, grant, or benefit line, and it is not a school-district ledger, not a student headcount, and not a test-score ranking. A second Education slice on another state uses the same agency code and a different dollar total. Do not treat Pennsylvania’s 091 cell as a synonym for every Education account.

Open Department of Education in Pennsylvania for the live filtered table, Pennsylvania federal spending for every awarding agency in the state extract, Department of Education for agency 091 without a Pennsylvania filter, and All spending ties for the rest of the join list. Quote those hubs as parents, not as addends to $11,542,176,588.74.

Awarding agency 091 as the Education side

USAspending labels awarding agency 091 as Department of Education. That code produced $11,542,176,588.74 when crossed with Pennsylvania place of performance. The agency-wide 091 hub does not require PA geography. The Pennsylvania hub does not require Education. Only the overlay applies both filters, which is why this tie cites 4,019 awards.

This page reports education awarding activity that USAspending coded to Pennsylvania. Correlation is not causation: Pennsylvania did not “cause” $11,542,176,588.74 by existing as a large or small place. Population, outcome scores, and named facilities are not packet facts. The join is 091 × PA only. Education grants, loans, and related assistance instruments can all sit under awarding agency 091. The packet does not split K-12, higher-education, or other Education accounts.

Full analysis: Department of Education federal obligations in Pennsylvania

Questions

How much Education spending is coded to Pennsylvania?
USAspending.gov lists $11,542,176,588.74 in Department of Education obligations across 4,019 Pennsylvania-coded awards. Agency 091 × PA is an obligation join, not an outlay and not Pennsylvania’s complete federal ledger. Department of Education in Pennsylvania is the live overlay for this pair. Unique recipients are unpublished. Average obligation is about $2.87 million, a ratio of those two facts only.
Does this total include every Education program in Pennsylvania?
The packet publishes one awarding-agency rollup. Education grants, loans, and related assistance instruments can all sit under awarding agency 091. The packet does not split K-12, higher-education, or other Education accounts. $11,542,176,588.74 is the combined obligation sum for agency 091 inside Pennsylvania coding. This page will not invent a program pie. Open Department of Education in Pennsylvania to inspect award lines. 4,019 remains an action count, not a program count.
Is $11,542,176,588.74 cash already paid in Pennsylvania?
No. Obligations are commitments recorded on USAspending.gov awards. Outlays — money that actually left the Treasury — are a different concept and are not this packet’s headline. Treating $11,542,176,588.74 as checks already cleared in Pennsylvania confuses those terms. Later ingests can revise 4,019 awards. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.
Where is the live Education–Pennsylvania table?
Department of Education in Pennsylvania is the overlay. Pennsylvania federal spending and Department of Education are the parents. All spending ties lists other agency-state pairs. Those hubs are not addends. Keep both sides of the join when citing $11,542,176,588.74. Place of performance is PA, not a county map. Obligations are not outlays.

USAspending.gov aggregate of federal obligations by state and awarding agency. Obligations are not outlays.

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