Department of Education federal obligations in Alabama

Education awards tagged to Alabama

Department of Education as awarding agency, Alabama as place-of-performance: 1,540 records summing to $5,811,718,663.49. A Department of Education award coded outside AL is out. An award in Alabama from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Alabama (AL) excludes Mississippi, Tennessee, Georgia, and Florida. A Pensacola-coded award is Florida.

One thousand five hundred forty awards is a typical Education formula-file size. A similar count elsewhere would not prove a similar program mix. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 1,540 as 1,540 unique enrollment, unique districts, or named universities. The overlay Department of Education in Alabama is the both-keys table. Alabama federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Department of Education is the agency book without an AL filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

This packet does not name Title I or IDEA inside $5,811,718,663.49. Program shares are unpublished. Correlation is not causation: Alabama did not “cause” $5,811,718,663.49 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 091 × AL only.

Not HBCU, football, or enrollment math

$5,811,718,663.49 does not measure enrollment, unique districts, or named universities. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 091 and an AL place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 1,540 awards as a census of enrollment, unique districts, or named universities. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Alabama federal spending or Department of Education matched $5,811,718,663.49 and 1,540, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Mississippi, Georgia, and Tennessee Education joins are other pairs, not addends.

Alabama statewide, not a county-board map

Place of performance AL is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. Alabama (AL) excludes Mississippi, Tennessee, Georgia, and Florida. A Pensacola-coded award is Florida. Recipient address can differ from that state tag.

This packet does not name Title I or IDEA inside $5,811,718,663.49. Program shares are unpublished. This packet does not split $5,811,718,663.49 by city, county, or named facility. 1,540 awards stay statewide. A county table would be a different extract.

Obligations versus warrants to LEAs

Even a thick or thin file records obligations, not necessarily outlays. $5,811,718,663.49 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in Alabama confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

Alabama’s own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 1,540-award USAspending file leaves this series. No fiscal year is published in this packet, so this page does not invent one. Keep the obligation label on $5,811,718,663.49.

Citing Education in Alabama

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Education (agency 091) obligated $5,811,718,663.49 on 1,540 awards coded to Alabama. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as enrollment, unique districts, or named universities.

Prefer Department of Education in Alabama if the overlay has refreshed after an ingest. Alabama federal spending still includes every other awarding agency tagged to AL. Department of Education is the 091 parent without the AL filter. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $5,811,718,663.49.

A usable footnote names Department of Education, Alabama, $5,811,718,663.49, and 1,540. The compact headline $5.81 billion is that same dollar total rounded. It is not a second extract. The implied mean near $3.77 million is $5,811,718,663.49 divided by 1,540. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.

Questions

How much has the Department of Education obligated in Alabama?

USAspending.gov records $5,811,718,663.49 across 1,540 awards with awarding agency 091 and an Alabama tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of enrollment, unique districts, or named universities. Department of Education in Alabama is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $5,811,718,663.49.

Is $5,811,718,663.49 a measure of enrollment, unique districts, or named universities?

No. The packet publishes $5,811,718,663.49 and 1,540 awards for agency 091 inside AL 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 1,540 awards?

That is the award-record count for 091 × AL. Combined with $5,811,718,663.49, the average is about $3.77 million. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 1,540 is not unique enrollment, unique districts, or named universities. Later ingests can revise the count. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live table?

Department of Education in Alabama is the overlay. Alabama 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 $5,811,718,663.49. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.