How much Education spending is coded to District of Columbia?

USAspending.gov lists $8,596,475,860.63 in Department of Education obligations across 1,254 District of Columbia-coded awards. Agency 091 × DC is an obligation join, not an outlay and not District of Columbia’s complete federal ledger. Department of Education in District of Columbia is the live overlay for this pair. Unique recipients are unpublished. Average obligation is about $6.86 million, a ratio of those two facts only.

Does this total include every Education program in District of Columbia?

The packet publishes one awarding-agency rollup, not a program pie. $8,596,475,860.63 is the combined obligation sum for agency 091 inside District of Columbia coding. Open Department of Education in District of Columbia to inspect award lines. 1,254 is an action count, not a program count. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not invent a CFDA split from the department label.

Is $8,596,475,860.63 cash already paid in District of Columbia?

No. Obligations are commitments recorded on USAspending.gov awards. Outlays — money that actually left the Treasury — are a different concept and are not this packet’s headline. Treating $8,596,475,860.63 as checks already cleared in District of Columbia confuses those terms. Later ingests can revise 1,254 awards. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live Education–District of Columbia table?

Department of Education in District of Columbia is the overlay. District of Columbia federal spending and Department of Education are the parents. All spending ties lists other agency-state pairs. Those hubs are not addends. Keep both sides of the join when citing $8,596,475,860.63. Place of performance is DC, not a county map. Obligations are not outlays.

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Department of Education federal obligations in District of Columbia

USAspending.gov records $8,596,475,860.63 in Department of Education obligations under awarding agency 091 with place of performance in District of Columbia, across 1,254 awards. The Department of Education’s headquarters sits in the District, and readers often treat a DC Education cell as the national office budget. Place of performance in the District is not the same filter as an agency-wide 091 total. The pair is Department of Education and District of Columbia — not District of Columbia’s entire federal inflow and not cash already paid. Average obligation is about $6.86 million ($8,596,475,860.63 ÷ 1,254).

Key figures

Education in District of Columbia: $8,596,475,860.63 across 1,254 USAspending awards.
Implied mean about $6.86 million per record, not a typical award size.
Agency 091 × DC is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a program split.
Cite USAspending.gov; quote Department of Education in District of Columbia if the live table moved.
District of Columbia federal spending and Department of Education are parents, not amounts to add into $8,596,475,860.63.

What the Education–District of Columbia join is

Awarding agency 091 and place-of-performance state DC meet here. $8,596,475,860.63 is the USAspending.gov obligation sum on awards that carry both tags. It is not Department of Education’s nationwide total, not every federal dollar coded to District of Columbia, and not an outlay register. Elementary-secondary, higher-education, and other Education awarding offices can share 091. A thin 1,254-row file with a large mean is easy to misread as one giant District grant; the packet does not say that.

1,254 is a thin award file: relatively few rows, so the mean is large and easy to misread as a typical grant. Modifications and repeat awards add rows. Unique recipients are unpublished. Dividing $8,596,475,860.63 by 1,254 yields about $6.86 million per award on average. That ratio is two packet facts. It is not a typical contract, grant, or benefit line.

Open Department of Education in District of Columbia for the live filtered table, District of Columbia federal spending for every awarding agency in the state extract, Department of Education for agency 091 without a District of Columbia filter, and All spending ties for the rest of the join list. Quote those hubs as parents, not as addends to $8,596,475,860.63.

Awarding agency 091 as the Education side

USAspending labels awarding agency 091 as Department of Education. That code produced $8,596,475,860.63 when crossed with District of Columbia place of performance. The agency-wide 091 hub does not require DC geography. The District of Columbia hub does not require Education. Only the overlay applies both filters, which is why this tie cites 1,254 awards.

Per-pupil figures, DCPS rankings, and a Pell-versus-Title-I split are unpublished. 1,254 awards is an action count, not a school count. A second Education slice on another state uses the same agency code and a different dollar total. Do not treat District of Columbia’s 091 cell as a synonym for every Education account.

District of Columbia as place of performance (DC)

District of Columbia on this join is a USAspending geography field, not a claim that every dollar was disbursed to District of Columbia residents. Awards can list DC while later work occurs elsewhere. Awards tagged Maryland or Virginia stay on those ties even when the recipient’s office is a Metro stop from the District. The District of Columbia is the geography key; it is not a state, and this page does not fold MD or VA suburbs into DC.

District of Columbia federal spending shows how agency 091 sits beside other awarding agencies in the same geography. $8,596,475,860.63 is one column in that table, not the table. This packet does not split District of Columbia by county, metro, or congressional district.

Obligations, not outlays

USAspending.gov records an obligation when the federal government commits funds on an award. $8,596,475,860.63 is that kind of sum for Department of Education inside District of Columbia coding. Later deobligations, recoveries, or payment schedules can change what leaves the Treasury without this join rewriting itself into a cash register. Assistance and contract awards can share the same awarding-agency rollup; this packet does not split them.

District of Columbia’s own budget is a separate ledger. Mixing it with the 1,254-row Education cell leaves USAspending.gov. Net obligations can include downward adjustments. This page reports $8,596,475,860.63 as given. Treat 1,254 as award records in the aggregate, not unique vendors.

How to cite Education in District of Columbia

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Education (agency 091) obligated $8,596,475,860.63 on 1,254 awards coded to District of Columbia. Name Department of Education and District of Columbia together. Keep the obligation word. If Department of Education in District of Columbia has refreshed, quote the overlay over this snapshot.

Keep Department of Education, District of Columbia, $8,596,475,860.63, and 1,254 awards together. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Department of Education is the 091 parent without a District of Columbia filter. Do not add those parents to this cell. Do not annualize without a year field in the packet. Do not per-capita or per-recipient the dollar total; those denominators are unpublished.

Questions

How much Education spending is coded to District of Columbia?: USAspending.gov lists $8,596,475,860.63 in Department of Education obligations across 1,254 District of Columbia-coded awards. Agency 091 × DC is an obligation join, not an outlay and not District of Columbia’s complete federal ledger. Department of Education in District of Columbia is the live overlay for this pair. Unique recipients are unpublished. Average obligation is about $6.86 million, a ratio of those two facts only.
Does this total include every Education program in District of Columbia?: The packet publishes one awarding-agency rollup, not a program pie. $8,596,475,860.63 is the combined obligation sum for agency 091 inside District of Columbia coding. Open Department of Education in District of Columbia to inspect award lines. 1,254 is an action count, not a program count. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not invent a CFDA split from the department label.
Is $8,596,475,860.63 cash already paid in District of Columbia?: No. Obligations are commitments recorded on USAspending.gov awards. Outlays — money that actually left the Treasury — are a different concept and are not this packet’s headline. Treating $8,596,475,860.63 as checks already cleared in District of Columbia confuses those terms. Later ingests can revise 1,254 awards. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.
Where is the live Education–District of Columbia table?: Department of Education in District of Columbia is the overlay. District of Columbia federal spending and Department of Education are the parents. All spending ties lists other agency-state pairs. Those hubs are not addends. Keep both sides of the join when citing $8,596,475,860.63. Place of performance is DC, not a county map. Obligations are not outlays.

USAspending.gov aggregate of federal obligations by state and awarding agency. Obligations are not outlays.