Special Education Grants to States in Virginia

IDEA Part B money meets Virginia coding

This tie keeps USAspending assistance where CFDA 84.027 and Virginia place of performance coincide. The dollar book is $2,049,054,085.07. The award count is 7. State-level special-education formula grants typically post as a few awards to the state educational agency rather than one row per local school division. That structure is a filing pattern. It does not prove that Virginia’s special-education population, identification rate, or per-pupil cost caused the dollar total.

CFDA 84.027 is Special Education Grants to States in the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance. Downstream subgrants to school divisions can exist without appearing as separate prime awards in this cell. This packet does not list LEAs or disability categories. Correlation is not causation.

Fall membership, child-count reports, and state special-education budgets are other series. They are not this extract. A reader who treats $2,049,054,085.07 as Virginia’s entire education obligation book has left the CFDA-by-state definition. The 7 figure is a record count, including modifications, not a count of students with disabilities.

Seven awards and a blended mean

Seven awards under $2,049,054,085.07 imply a mean near $292,722,012 per award. Formula SEA grants of this size often produce that kind of average. The packet has no median and no split between the base grant and any supplemental actions in the seven-row tape.

A low award count does not mean seven school divisions received the money. It means seven prime records carry the CFDA and the state code. Cite both dollars and count. USAspending.gov is the source; SpendingVault does not recast the mean as a typical LEA allocation.

Questions

How much Special Education Grants to States funding is in Virginia?

USAspending.gov shows $2,049,054,085.07 in CFDA 84.027 obligations coded to Virginia across 7 awards. The join uses the program number and Virginia place of performance. The total is obligations, not outlays.

Does 7 awards mean 7 school divisions got the money?

No. The extract counts 7 prime award records tagged to CFDA 84.027 and Virginia. IDEA Part B formula funds often post at the state educational agency. Local subgrants are not listed in this packet. The implied mean is about $292,722,012 per award.

Is $2.05 billion Virginia’s full federal education spending?

No. $2,049,054,085.07 is only the Special Education Grants to States cell. Other CFDA programs with Virginia place of performance sit on the statewide hub. Nationwide 84.027 is not limited to Virginia.

Do these obligations equal cash spent on special education?

No. $2,049,054,085.07 is an obligation sum. Outlays are a different USAspending series. Classroom spending and LEA subgrants can lag the federal obligation.