Department of Education federal obligations in Colorado

Education awards tagged to Colorado

Department of Education as awarding agency, Colorado as place-of-performance: 1,716 records summing to $5,815,911,191.76. A Department of Education award coded outside CO is out. An award in Colorado from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Colorado (CO) excludes Wyoming, Utah, New Mexico, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Arizona. A Cheyenne-coded award is Wyoming.

One thousand seven hundred sixteen awards sits in the Education mid-band: hundreds of awards, not hundreds of thousands. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 1,716 as 1,716 unique enrollment, NAEP scores, or unique districts. The overlay Department of Education in Colorado is the both-keys table. Colorado federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Department of Education is the agency book without a CO filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

Denver, Colorado Springs, and mountain districts are unpublished. $5,815,911,191.76 is 091 × CO only. Correlation is not causation: Colorado did not “cause” $5,815,911,191.76 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 091 × CO only.

Front Range folklore is not a packet field

$5,815,911,191.76 does not measure enrollment, NAEP scores, or unique districts. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 091 and a CO place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 1,716 awards as a census of enrollment, NAEP scores, or unique districts. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Colorado federal spending or Department of Education matched $5,815,911,191.76 and 1,716, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Utah, New Mexico, and Kansas Education joins are other pairs, not addends.

Colorado statewide, not a Denver metro cut

Place of performance CO is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. Colorado (CO) excludes Wyoming, Utah, New Mexico, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Arizona. A Cheyenne-coded award is Wyoming. Recipient address can differ from that state tag.

Denver, Colorado Springs, and mountain districts are unpublished. $5,815,911,191.76 is 091 × CO only. This packet does not split $5,815,911,191.76 by city, county, or named facility. 1,716 awards stay statewide. A county table would be a different extract.

State grants versus district cash

Even a thick or thin file records obligations, not necessarily outlays. $5,815,911,191.76 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in Colorado confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

Colorado’s own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 1,716-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 $5,815,911,191.76.

Citing Education in Colorado

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Education (agency 091) obligated $5,815,911,191.76 on 1,716 awards coded to Colorado. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as enrollment, NAEP scores, or unique districts.

Prefer Department of Education in Colorado if the overlay has refreshed after an ingest. Colorado federal spending still includes every other awarding agency tagged to CO. Department of Education is the 091 parent without the CO filter. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $5,815,911,191.76.

A usable footnote names Department of Education, Colorado, $5,815,911,191.76, and 1,716. The compact headline $5.82 billion is that same dollar total rounded. It is not a second extract. The implied mean near $3.39 million is $5,815,911,191.76 divided by 1,716. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.

One thousand seven hundred sixteen awards sits in the Education mid-band: hundreds of awards, not hundreds of thousands. On this join the implied mean near $3.39 million should not be treated as a typical award size. Without a distribution, $5,815,911,191.76 can be dominated by a few rows even when 1,716 is large, or by those same few rows when 1,716 is small. This page will not pretend to know which pattern holds. It keeps repeating the two facts and the two keys: Department of Education (091) and Colorado (CO). Place of performance still does not mean every dollar was disbursed locally. Obligations still do not mean outlays. Denver, Colorado Springs, and mountain districts are unpublished. $5,815,911,191.76 is 091 × CO only.

Questions

How much has the Department of Education obligated in Colorado?

USAspending.gov records $5,815,911,191.76 across 1,716 awards with awarding agency 091 and a Colorado tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of enrollment, NAEP scores, or unique districts. Department of Education in Colorado is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $5,815,911,191.76.

Is $5,815,911,191.76 a measure of enrollment, NAEP scores, or unique districts?

No. The packet publishes $5,815,911,191.76 and 1,716 awards for agency 091 inside CO 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 1,716 awards?

That is the award-record count for 091 × CO. Combined with $5,815,911,191.76, the average is about $3.39 million. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 1,716 is not unique enrollment, NAEP scores, or unique districts. Later ingests can revise the count. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live table?

Department of Education in Colorado is the overlay. Colorado 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 $5,815,911,191.76. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.