Department of Education federal obligations in Mississippi
The Department of Education shows $4,599,789,548.43 in USAspending.gov obligations coded to Mississippi, across 1,026 awards. Awarding-agency 091 and Mississippi (MS) are the pair. One thousand twenty-six records is a typical Education formula-file size: hundreds of awards, not hundreds of thousands. The implied mean is about $4.48 million per award — a quotient of two packet facts, not a typical project. USAspending.gov is the source. Amounts are obligations, not outlays.
Key figures
- Education in Mississippi: $4,599,789,548.43 across 1,026 USAspending awards.
- Implied mean about $4.48 million per record — a packet quotient, not a typical project.
- Agency 091 × MS is not a measure of enrollment, NAEP scores, or unique school districts.
- Cite obligations from USAspending.gov, not outlays.
- Mississippi federal spending and Department of Education are parents, not amounts to add into $4,599,789,548.43.
Education awards tagged to Mississippi
Department of Education as awarding agency, Mississippi as place-of-performance: 1,026 records summing to $4,599,789,548.43. A Department of Education award coded outside MS is out. An award in Mississippi from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Mississippi (MS) excludes Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Tennessee. A Memphis-coded award is Tennessee even if a student commutes.
One thousand twenty-six records is a typical Education formula-file size: hundreds of awards, not hundreds of thousands. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 1,026 as 1,026 unique enrollment, NAEP scores, or unique school districts. The overlay Department of Education in Mississippi is the both-keys table. Mississippi federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Department of Education is the agency book without an MS filter. All spending ties lists other joins.
This packet does not name Title I, IDEA, or Pell as line items inside $4,599,789,548.43. Correlation is not causation: Mississippi did not “cause” $4,599,789,548.43 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 091 × MS only.
Not a NAEP score or enrollment ledger
$4,599,789,548.43 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 MS place-of-performance tag.
Do not treat 1,026 awards as a census of enrollment, NAEP scores, or unique school districts. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Mississippi federal spending or Department of Education matched $4,599,789,548.43 and 1,026, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Alabama, Arkansas, and Louisiana Education joins are other pairs, not addends.
Mississippi statewide, not a Delta-versus-coast split
Place of performance MS is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. Mississippi (MS) excludes Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Tennessee. A Memphis-coded award is Tennessee 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 $4,599,789,548.43. This packet does not split $4,599,789,548.43 by city, county, or named facility. 1,026 awards stay statewide. A county table would be a different extract.
Formula vehicles versus checks to districts
Even a thick or thin file records obligations, not necessarily outlays. $4,599,789,548.43 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in Mississippi confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.
Mississippi’s own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 1,026-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 $4,599,789,548.43. Sharing a state with Education does not mean campaign donations funded these awards.
Citing Education in Mississippi
Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Education (agency 091) obligated $4,599,789,548.43 on 1,026 awards coded to Mississippi. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as enrollment, NAEP scores, or unique school districts.
Prefer Department of Education in Mississippi if the overlay has refreshed after an ingest. Mississippi federal spending still includes every other awarding agency tagged to MS. Department of Education is the 091 parent without the MS filter. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $4,599,789,548.43.
A usable footnote names Department of Education, Mississippi, $4,599,789,548.43, and 1,026. The compact headline $4.60 billion is that same dollar total rounded. It is not a second extract. The implied mean near $4.48 million is $4,599,789,548.43 divided by 1,026. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.
Questions
- How much has the Department of Education obligated in Mississippi?
- USAspending.gov records $4,599,789,548.43 across 1,026 awards with awarding agency 091 and a Mississippi 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 Mississippi is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $4,599,789,548.43.
- Is $4,599,789,548.43 a measure of enrollment, NAEP scores, or unique school districts?
- No. The packet publishes $4,599,789,548.43 and 1,026 awards for agency 091 inside MS 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 1,026 awards?
- That is the award-record count for 091 × MS. Combined with $4,599,789,548.43, the average is about $4.48 million. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 1,026 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 Mississippi is the overlay. Mississippi 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 $4,599,789,548.43. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.
USAspending.gov aggregate of federal obligations by state and awarding agency. Obligations are not outlays.