Department of Education federal obligations in Iowa

Education awards tagged to Iowa

Department of Education as awarding agency, Iowa as place-of-performance: 1,611 records summing to $2,391,613,454.99. A Department of Education award coded outside IA is out. An award in Iowa from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Iowa (IA) excludes Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Missouri. A Chicago-coded award is IL even if a student later enrolls in Iowa. Elementary, secondary, and postsecondary instruments can share awarding agency 091. The packet does not split them.

One thousand six hundred eleven records is a typical Education formula-file size: hundreds of awards, not hundreds of thousands. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 1,611 as 1,611 unique enrollment, NAEP scores, or unique school districts. The overlay Department of Education in Iowa is the both-keys table. Iowa federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Department of Education is the agency book without an IA filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

This packet does not name Title I, IDEA, Pell, Iowa State, or the University of Iowa as line items inside $2,391,613,454.99. Correlation is not causation: Iowa did not “cause” $2,391,613,454.99 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 091 × IA only.

Not a report card or enrollment ledger

$2,391,613,454.99 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 IA place-of-performance tag. Elementary, secondary, and postsecondary instruments can share awarding agency 091. The packet does not split them.

Do not treat 1,611 awards as a census of enrollment, NAEP scores, or unique school districts. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Iowa federal spending or Department of Education matched $2,391,613,454.99 and 1,611, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Illinois, Nebraska, and Missouri Education joins are other pairs, not addends.

Iowa statewide, not a campus-versus-LEA map

Place of performance IA is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. Iowa (IA) excludes Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Missouri. A Chicago-coded award is IL even if a student later enrolls in Iowa. Recipient address can differ from that state tag. Des Moines, Cedar Rapids, Iowa City, and the rest of the counties share one IA stamp.

This packet does not name Title I, IDEA, Pell, Iowa State, or the University of Iowa as line items inside $2,391,613,454.99. This packet does not split $2,391,613,454.99 by city, county, or named facility. 1,611 awards stay statewide. A county table would be a different extract.

State-administered grants versus checks to districts

Even a thick or thin file records obligations, not necessarily outlays. $2,391,613,454.99 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in Iowa confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

Iowa’s own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 1,611-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 $2,391,613,454.99.

Citing Education in Iowa

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Education (agency 091) obligated $2,391,613,454.99 on 1,611 awards coded to Iowa. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as enrollment, NAEP scores, or unique school districts.

Prefer Department of Education in Iowa if the overlay has refreshed after an ingest. Iowa federal spending still includes every other awarding agency tagged to IA. Department of Education is the 091 parent without the IA filter. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $2,391,613,454.99. A usable footnote names Department of Education, Iowa, $2,391,613,454.99, and 1,611. The compact headline $2.39 billion is that same dollar total rounded. It is not a second extract. The implied mean near $1.48 million is $2,391,613,454.99 divided by 1,611. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.

Questions

How much has the Department of Education obligated in Iowa?

USAspending.gov records $2,391,613,454.99 across 1,611 awards with awarding agency 091 and an Iowa 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 Iowa is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $2,391,613,454.99.

Is $2,391,613,454.99 a measure of enrollment, NAEP scores, or unique school districts?

No. The packet publishes $2,391,613,454.99 and 1,611 awards for agency 091 inside IA 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 1,611 awards?

That is the award-record count for 091 × IA. Combined with $2,391,613,454.99, the average is about $1.48 million. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 1,611 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 Education–Iowa table?

Department of Education in Iowa is the overlay. Iowa 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 $2,391,613,454.99. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.