Department of Education obligations in New Jersey 12th District (NJ-12)
Department of Education in New Jersey 12th District (NJ-12) shows $3,510,273,855.18 in USAspending.gov obligations. 141 awards sit behind the cell. FEC filings and USAspending awards are different datasets; campaign contributions do not fund this cell. The join is agency 091 plus congressional district geography, about 34.5% of the $10,174,542,497.64 district book. Keep the obligation label.
Key figures
- Department of Education in NJ-12 shows $3,510,273,855.18 in USAspending obligations on 141 awards.
- 141 awards are a row count, not a census of schools, students, or local education agencies.
- The join is agency 091 plus NJ-12, not NY-12 and not statewide New Jersey Education.
- The total is commitments, not outlays. FEC donations do not fund this cell.
Education × NJ-12 is not Education in NY-12
New Jersey 12th District (NJ-12) pairs agency 091 with a district geography tag. Campus or township names are not in the packet. The Education slice is about one-third of the NJ-12 book — a larger share than PA-10 Education, on a much smaller district total. SpendingVault sums tagged obligations: $3,510,273,855.18 on 141 awards for awarding agency 091 with New Jersey 12th District (NJ-12) as place of performance. Treat the pair as a table intersection, not a ranking of districts as winners or losers, and not a claim that 141 awards equal 141 schools. A Department of Education amount tagged to a different district is out of this cell.
Labor, HHS, or Interior awards that mention education in a description sit outside $3,510,273,855.18 unless those awards also carry agency 091 and NJ-12 geography. Mixing those lines would invent a combined figure the packet never computed. Correlation between this obligation sum and enrollment or proficiency scores is not causation. Those series are not in the packet. Place of performance as NJ-12 locates the tagged awards; it does not deposit $3,510,273,855.18 in a district treasury. New York 12th District Education is a different state. Matching district numbers across states are coincidences of numbering, not the same join.
141 Education awards in New Jersey 12th District
One hundred forty-one Education awards is a thin-to-moderate grain. It is not 141 school districts. Mean obligation is about $24,895,559.26 if $3,510,273,855.18 were divided evenly across 141 lines — a mechanical ratio, not a published typical award. Award count is a row count of USAspending awards, including possible modifications. The extract does not split student-aid vehicles from formula grants to education agencies. Unique recipients are unpublished.
This page will not invent contractor or recipient names. Open New Jersey 12th District for the stored district table and Department of Education for the national agency shelf. Do not convert 141 into a map of schools, students, or local education agencies inside New Jersey 12th District. The $3,510,273,855.18 total remains an obligation rollup on tagged awards. Inspect named lines on USAspending.gov rather than inferring an inventory.
NJ-12 Education obligations are not tuition already paid
Education obligations are commitments, not tuition already paid. Education awards often obligate as assistance is awarded and draw as claims or invoices are processed. The $3,510,273,855.18 headline is the obligation sum on this district-agency join, not tuition already paid or construction already finished. Citing the figure as cash already sent confuses two USAspending concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total. No fiscal year is attached to this packet; do not annualize $3,510,273,855.18 into a yearly run rate.
Keep the obligation word on $3,510,273,855.18. Keep both Department of Education and New Jersey 12th District (NJ-12) in the citation. Campaign contributions recorded on FEC.gov do not fund this USAspending cell. Different datasets can share a state abbreviation without sharing a money trail.
What the New Jersey 12th District Education extract omits
The extract has no roster of schools, students, or local education agencies. Facts remain $3,510,273,855.18, 141 awards, agency 091 (Department of Education), New Jersey 12th District (NJ-12), and a district-wide book of $10,174,542,497.64. This page will not invent a contractor league table. Sibling district-agency joins are separate obligation totals, not a better or worse score.
New Jersey 12th District places NJ-12 among other congressional districts. Department of Education places agency 091 among other awarding agencies. New Jersey federal spending is the statewide shelf. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Mixing those shelves would invent a share of New Jersey spending or of Department of Education's national book the packet never computed. The $3,510,273,855.18 figure is the tagged pair only. New York 12th District Education is a different state. Matching district numbers across states are coincidences of numbering, not the same join.
Citing Department of Education in NJ-12
A clean footnote names Department of Education (agency 091), New Jersey 12th District (NJ-12), $3,510,273,855.18 in obligations, and 141 awards on USAspending.gov. Keep the obligation word. Do not relabel 141 as a census of schools, students, or local education agencies. Quote the district overlay if you need every awarding agency in NJ-12, and quote the agency page if you need Department of Education without a district filter. About 34.5% of the $10,174,542,497.64 district book sits on this agency in the extract; that percentage is a derived ratio, not a separate published table.
A ties page exists because two tables meet. One table is awarding agency 091. The other is congressional district place of performance as NJ-12. The headline $3,510,273,855.18 is the obligation sum on that intersection. It is not a forecast, not a budget request, and not an outlay. It is also not a claim that Department of Education caused New Jersey 12th District's economy to grow, or that the district caused the awards to exist. If a later ingest moves the live overlay, prefer the overlay when the table and this snapshot diverge.
Questions
- How much did Education obligate in New Jersey 12th District?
- USAspending.gov shows $3,510,273,855.18 in obligations for Department of Education (agency 091) with New Jersey 12th District (NJ-12) as place of performance, across 141 awards. The sum is a commitment total, not outlays and not the district's entire education budget. Other agencies in the district sit outside this join.
- Do 141 awards mean 141 NJ-12 schools?
- No. Award count is a row count of USAspending awards and can include continuations. It is not a census of schools, students, or local education agencies. The packet does not name recipients. Mean obligation of about $24,895,559.26 is a quotient, not a typical published award. See New Jersey 12th District for stored lines.
- Is this the same join as Education in New York 12th District?
- No. The join is awarding agency 091 crossed with NJ-12 place of performance. The district-wide book on this extract is $10,174,542,497.64. Related agencies and other districts are not inside $3,510,273,855.18 unless they also carry both keys. New York 12th District Education is a different state. Matching district numbers across states are coincidences of numbering, not the same join.
- Is the NJ-12 Education total already disbursed?
- Not on this metric. Obligations are recorded commitments. Outlays are payments from the Treasury. The $3,510,273,855.18 headline is the obligation rollup in SpendingVault's extract. Draws and remaining balances are not published in this packet. Remaining balances are not in the facts.
USAspending.gov congressional district place-of-performance joined to awarding agency. District 90/98 (multi/non-voting placeholders) are omitted. Obligations are not outlays.