Department of Education federal obligations in Maine

Education awards tagged to Maine

Department of Education as awarding agency, Maine as place-of-performance: 852 records summing to $1,336,722,561.50. A Department of Education award coded outside ME is out. An award in Maine from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Maine (ME) excludes New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Canada. A New Hampshire-coded award is NH even if a student commutes.

Eight hundred fifty-two records is a typical Education formula-file size: hundreds of awards, not hundreds of thousands. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 852 as 852 unique enrollment, NAEP scores, or unique school districts. The overlay Department of Education in Maine is the both-keys table. Maine federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Department of Education is the agency book without an ME filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

This packet does not name Title I, IDEA, or Pell as line items inside $1,336,722,561.50. Correlation is not causation: Maine did not cause $1,336,722,561.50 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 091 × ME only.

Not a report card or enrollment ledger

$1,336,722,561.50 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 ME place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 852 awards as a census of enrollment, NAEP scores, or unique school districts. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Maine federal spending or Department of Education matched $1,336,722,561.50 and 852, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. New Hampshire and Massachusetts Education joins are other pairs, not addends.

Maine statewide, not a Portland-versus-north split

Place of performance ME is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. Maine (ME) excludes New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Canada. A New Hampshire-coded award is NH even if a student commutes. Recipient address can differ from that state tag.

This packet does not name Title I, IDEA, or Pell as line items inside $1,336,722,561.50. This packet does not split $1,336,722,561.50 by city, county, or named facility. 852 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. $1,336,722,561.50 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in Maine confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

Maine’s own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 852-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 $1,336,722,561.50.

Citing Education in Maine

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Education (agency 091) obligated $1,336,722,561.50 on 852 awards coded to Maine. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as enrollment, NAEP scores, or unique school districts.

Prefer Department of Education in Maine if the overlay has refreshed after an ingest. Maine federal spending still includes every other awarding agency tagged to ME. Department of Education is the 091 parent without the ME filter. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $1,336,722,561.50.

A usable footnote names Department of Education, Maine, $1,336,722,561.50, and 852. The compact headline $1.34 billion is that same dollar total rounded. It is not a second extract. The implied mean near $1.57 million is $1,336,722,561.50 divided by 852. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.

Eight hundred fifty-two records is a typical Education formula-file size: hundreds of awards, not hundreds of thousands. On this join the implied mean near $1.57 million should not be treated as a typical award size. Without a distribution, $1,336,722,561.50 can be dominated by a few rows even when 852 is large, or by those same few rows when 852 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 Maine (ME). Place of performance still does not mean every dollar was disbursed locally. Obligations still do not mean outlays. This packet does not name Title I, IDEA, or Pell as line items inside $1,336,722,561.50.

Questions

How much has the Department of Education obligated in Maine?

USAspending.gov records $1,336,722,561.50 across 852 awards with awarding agency 091 and a Maine 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 Maine is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $1,336,722,561.50.

Is $1,336,722,561.50 a measure of enrollment, NAEP scores, or unique school districts?

No. The packet publishes $1,336,722,561.50 and 852 awards for agency 091 inside ME 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 852 awards?

That is the award-record count for 091 × ME. Combined with $1,336,722,561.50, the average is about $1.57 million. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 852 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 Maine is the overlay. Maine 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 $1,336,722,561.50. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.