Department of Education federal obligations in Maryland

Education awards tagged to Maryland

Department of Education as awarding agency, Maryland as place-of-performance: 1,455 records summing to $5,709,359,482.49. A Department of Education award coded outside MD is out. An award in Maryland from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Maryland (MD) excludes the District of Columbia, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and West Virginia. A D.C.-coded award is DC.

One thousand four hundred fifty-five awards is a slightly thinner Education formula file, still in the hundreds-to-low-thousands band. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 1,455 as 1,455 unique enrollment, unique districts, or Beltway commuting. The overlay Department of Education in Maryland is the both-keys table. Maryland federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Department of Education is the agency book without an MD filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

Prince George’s and Montgomery counties are unpublished. $5,709,359,482.49 is statewide 091 × MD. Correlation is not causation: Maryland did not “cause” $5,709,359,482.49 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 091 × MD only.

Not a Beltway or enrollment ledger

$5,709,359,482.49 does not measure enrollment, unique districts, or Beltway commuting. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 091 and an MD place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 1,455 awards as a census of enrollment, unique districts, or Beltway commuting. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Maryland federal spending or Department of Education matched $5,709,359,482.49 and 1,455, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. District of Columbia, Virginia, and Pennsylvania Education joins are other pairs, not addends.

Maryland, not the District of Columbia

Place of performance MD is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. Maryland (MD) excludes the District of Columbia, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and West Virginia. A D.C.-coded award is DC. Recipient address can differ from that state tag.

Prince George’s and Montgomery counties are unpublished. $5,709,359,482.49 is statewide 091 × MD. This packet does not split $5,709,359,482.49 by city, county, or named facility. 1,455 awards stay statewide. A county table would be a different extract.

State-administered grants versus LEA cash

Even a thick or thin file records obligations, not necessarily outlays. $5,709,359,482.49 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in Maryland confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

Maryland’s own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 1,455-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 $5,709,359,482.49.

Citing Education in Maryland

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Education (agency 091) obligated $5,709,359,482.49 on 1,455 awards coded to Maryland. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as enrollment, unique districts, or Beltway commuting.

Prefer Department of Education in Maryland if the overlay has refreshed after an ingest. Maryland federal spending still includes every other awarding agency tagged to MD. Department of Education is the 091 parent without the MD filter. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $5,709,359,482.49.

A usable footnote names Department of Education, Maryland, $5,709,359,482.49, and 1,455. The compact headline $5.71 billion is that same dollar total rounded. It is not a second extract. The implied mean near $3.92 million is $5,709,359,482.49 divided by 1,455. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.

Questions

How much has the Department of Education obligated in Maryland?

USAspending.gov records $5,709,359,482.49 across 1,455 awards with awarding agency 091 and a Maryland tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of enrollment, unique districts, or Beltway commuting. Department of Education in Maryland is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $5,709,359,482.49.

Is $5,709,359,482.49 a measure of enrollment, unique districts, or Beltway commuting?

No. The packet publishes $5,709,359,482.49 and 1,455 awards for agency 091 inside MD 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 1,455 awards?

That is the award-record count for 091 × MD. Combined with $5,709,359,482.49, the average is about $3.92 million. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 1,455 is not unique enrollment, unique districts, or Beltway commuting. Later ingests can revise the count. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live table?

Department of Education in Maryland is the overlay. Maryland 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 $5,709,359,482.49. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.