Department of Education federal obligations in Massachusetts

What the Education–Massachusetts join is

Awarding agency 091 and place-of-performance state MA meet here. $7,500,437,342.47 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 Massachusetts, and not an outlay register. K–12 formula vehicles and higher-education awards can share 091. Do not quote $7.50 billion as ‘Harvard and MIT’ or as ‘Chapter 70.’ Those are not packet fields.

2,381 is a moderate row count, consistent with a mix of formula vehicles and project awards, without naming those vehicles. Modifications and repeat awards add rows. Unique recipients are unpublished. Dividing $7,500,437,342.47 by 2,381 yields about $3.15 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 Massachusetts for the live filtered table, Massachusetts federal spending for every awarding agency in the state extract, Department of Education for agency 091 without a Massachusetts filter, and All spending ties for the rest of the join list. Quote those hubs as parents, not as addends to $7,500,437,342.47.

Awarding agency 091 as the Education side

USAspending labels awarding agency 091 as Department of Education. That code produced $7,500,437,342.47 when crossed with Massachusetts place of performance. The agency-wide 091 hub does not require MA geography. The Massachusetts hub does not require Education. Only the overlay applies both filters, which is why this tie cites 2,381 awards.

A campus ranking, a per-pupil figure, and a Pell-versus-Title-I split are unpublished. 2,381 awards is not a count of Commonwealth schools. A second Education slice on another state uses the same agency code and a different dollar total. Do not treat Massachusetts’s 091 cell as a synonym for every Education account.

Massachusetts as place of performance (MA)

Massachusetts on this join is a USAspending geography field, not a claim that every dollar was disbursed to Massachusetts residents. Awards can list MA while later work occurs elsewhere. Awards tagged New Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, or Vermont remain on those ties even when a student lives across a border. Boston, Worcester, and the Pioneer Valley share one MA stamp.

Massachusetts federal spending shows how agency 091 sits beside other awarding agencies in the same geography. $7,500,437,342.47 is one column in that table, not the table. This packet does not split Massachusetts by county, metro, or congressional district.

Obligations, not outlays

USAspending.gov records an obligation when the federal government commits funds on an award. $7,500,437,342.47 is that kind of sum for Department of Education inside Massachusetts 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.

Massachusetts’s own budget is a separate ledger. Mixing it with the 2,381-row Education cell leaves USAspending.gov. Net obligations can include downward adjustments. This page reports $7,500,437,342.47 as given. Treat 2,381 as award records in the aggregate, not unique vendors.

How to cite Education in Massachusetts

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Education (agency 091) obligated $7,500,437,342.47 on 2,381 awards coded to Massachusetts. Name Department of Education and Massachusetts together. Keep the obligation word. If Department of Education in Massachusetts has refreshed, quote the overlay over this snapshot.

Keep Department of Education, Massachusetts, $7,500,437,342.47, and 2,381 awards together. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Department of Education is the 091 parent without a Massachusetts 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 Massachusetts?

USAspending.gov lists $7,500,437,342.47 in Department of Education obligations across 2,381 Massachusetts-coded awards. Agency 091 × MA is an obligation join, not an outlay and not Massachusetts’s complete federal ledger. Department of Education in Massachusetts is the live overlay for this pair. Unique recipients are unpublished. Average obligation is about $3.15 million, a ratio of those two facts only.

Does this total include every Education program in Massachusetts?

The packet publishes one awarding-agency rollup, not a program pie. $7,500,437,342.47 is the combined obligation sum for agency 091 inside Massachusetts coding. Open Department of Education in Massachusetts to inspect award lines. 2,381 is an action count, not a program count. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not invent a CFDA split from the department label.

Is $7,500,437,342.47 cash already paid in Massachusetts?

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 $7,500,437,342.47 as checks already cleared in Massachusetts confuses those terms. Later ingests can revise 2,381 awards. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live Education–Massachusetts table?

Department of Education in Massachusetts is the overlay. Massachusetts 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 $7,500,437,342.47. Place of performance is MA, not a county map. Obligations are not outlays.