Department of Education federal obligations in Alaska

Education awards tagged to Alaska

Department of Education as awarding agency, Alaska as place-of-performance: 846 records summing to $1,901,340,095.39. A Department of Education award coded outside AK is out. An award in Alaska from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Alaska (AK) is a distinct place-of-performance key. Washington, Oregon, and Hawaii Education rows are other cells.

Eight hundred forty-six records is a typical Education formula-file size: hundreds of awards, not hundreds of thousands. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 846 as 846 unique enrollment, unique school districts, or NAEP scores. The overlay Department of Education in Alaska is the both-keys table. Alaska federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Department of Education is the agency book without an AK filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

Bush districts, Anchorage, and the Interior share one AK stamp. Title I, Impact Aid, and Pell are unpublished splits of $1,901,340,095.39. Correlation is not causation: Alaska did not cause $1,901,340,095.39 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 091 × AK only.

Not a rural-school or enrollment ledger

$1,901,340,095.39 does not measure enrollment, unique school districts, or NAEP scores. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 091 and an AK place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 846 awards as a census of enrollment, unique school districts, or NAEP scores. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Alaska federal spending or Department of Education matched $1,901,340,095.39 and 846, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Washington, Hawaii, and Oregon Education joins are other pairs, not addends.

Alaska is not the lower 48

Place of performance AK is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. Alaska (AK) is a distinct place-of-performance key. Washington, Oregon, and Hawaii Education rows are other cells. Recipient address can differ from that state tag.

Bush districts, Anchorage, and the Interior share one AK stamp. Title I, Impact Aid, and Pell are unpublished splits of $1,901,340,095.39. This packet does not split $1,901,340,095.39 by city, county, or named facility. 846 awards stay statewide. A county table would be a different extract.

State-administered grants versus district warrants

Even a thick or thin file records obligations, not necessarily outlays. $1,901,340,095.39 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in Alaska confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

Alaska’s own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 846-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 $1,901,340,095.39.

Citing Education in Alaska

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Education (agency 091) obligated $1,901,340,095.39 on 846 awards coded to Alaska. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as enrollment, unique school districts, or NAEP scores.

Prefer Department of Education in Alaska if the overlay has refreshed after an ingest. Alaska federal spending still includes every other awarding agency tagged to AK. Department of Education is the 091 parent without the AK filter. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $1,901,340,095.39.

A usable footnote names Department of Education, Alaska, $1,901,340,095.39, and 846. The compact headline $1.90 billion is that same dollar total rounded. It is not a second extract. The implied mean near $2.25 million is $1,901,340,095.39 divided by 846. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.

Questions

How much has the Department of Education obligated in Alaska?

USAspending.gov records $1,901,340,095.39 across 846 awards with awarding agency 091 and an Alaska tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of enrollment, unique school districts, or NAEP scores. Department of Education in Alaska is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $1,901,340,095.39.

Is $1,901,340,095.39 a measure of enrollment, unique school districts, or NAEP scores?

No. The packet publishes $1,901,340,095.39 and 846 awards for agency 091 inside AK 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 846 awards?

That is the award-record count for 091 × AK. Combined with $1,901,340,095.39, the average is about $2.25 million. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 846 is not unique enrollment, unique school districts, or NAEP scores. Later ingests can revise the count. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live Education–Alaska table?

Department of Education in Alaska is the overlay. Alaska 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 $1,901,340,095.39. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays. Place of performance is AK.