Department of Education federal obligations in Arkansas

Education awards tagged to Arkansas

Department of Education as awarding agency, Arkansas as place-of-performance: 1,521 records summing to $4,010,070,658.77. A Department of Education award coded outside AR is out. An award in Arkansas from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Arkansas (AR) excludes Missouri, Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, and Oklahoma. A Memphis-coded award is Tennessee.

One thousand five hundred twenty-one records is a typical Education formula-file size: hundreds of awards, not hundreds of thousands. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 1,521 as 1,521 unique enrollment, NAEP scores, or unique school districts. The overlay Department of Education in Arkansas is the both-keys table. Arkansas federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Department of Education is the agency book without an AR filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

This packet does not name Title I, IDEA, or Pell as line items inside $4,010,070,658.77. Correlation is not causation: Arkansas did not “cause” $4,010,070,658.77 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 091 × AR only.

Not a report card or unique-LEA census

$4,010,070,658.77 does not measure enrollment, NAEP scores, or unique school districts. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 091 and an AR place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 1,521 awards as a census of enrollment, NAEP scores, or unique school districts. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Arkansas federal spending or Department of Education matched $4,010,070,658.77 and 1,521, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Missouri, Tennessee, and Mississippi Education joins are other pairs, not addends.

Arkansas statewide, not a Delta-versus-Ozarks split

Place of performance AR is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. Arkansas (AR) excludes Missouri, Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, and Oklahoma. A Memphis-coded award is Tennessee. Recipient address can differ from that state tag.

This packet does not name Title I, IDEA, or Pell as line items inside $4,010,070,658.77. This packet does not split $4,010,070,658.77 by city, county, or named facility. 1,521 awards stay statewide. A county table would be a different extract.

Formula vehicles versus district warrants

Even a thick or thin file records obligations, not necessarily outlays. $4,010,070,658.77 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in Arkansas confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

Arkansas’s own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 1,521-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 $4,010,070,658.77. Sharing a state with Education does not mean campaign donations funded these awards.

Citing Education in Arkansas

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Education (agency 091) obligated $4,010,070,658.77 on 1,521 awards coded to Arkansas. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as enrollment, NAEP scores, or unique school districts.

Prefer Department of Education in Arkansas if the overlay has refreshed after an ingest. Arkansas federal spending still includes every other awarding agency tagged to AR. Department of Education is the 091 parent without the AR filter. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $4,010,070,658.77.

A usable footnote names Department of Education, Arkansas, $4,010,070,658.77, and 1,521. The compact headline $4.01 billion is that same dollar total rounded. It is not a second extract. The implied mean near $2.64 million is $4,010,070,658.77 divided by 1,521. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.

Questions

How much has the Department of Education obligated in Arkansas?

USAspending.gov records $4,010,070,658.77 across 1,521 awards with awarding agency 091 and an Arkansas tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of enrollment, NAEP scores, or unique school districts. Department of Education in Arkansas is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $4,010,070,658.77.

Is $4,010,070,658.77 a measure of enrollment, NAEP scores, or unique school districts?

No. The packet publishes $4,010,070,658.77 and 1,521 awards for agency 091 inside AR 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 1,521 awards?

That is the award-record count for 091 × AR. Combined with $4,010,070,658.77, the average is about $2.64 million. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 1,521 is not unique enrollment, NAEP scores, or unique school districts. Later ingests can revise the count. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live table?

Department of Education in Arkansas is the overlay. Arkansas 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 $4,010,070,658.77. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.