Department of Education federal obligations in Rhode Island

What the Education-Rhode Island join is

Awarding agency 091 and place-of-performance state RI meet here. $1,133,100,563.73 is the obligation sum on awards that carry both tags. It is not Department of Education's nationwide budget, not Rhode Island's entire federal inflow, and not cash already paid. Urban-district, higher-ed, and statewide Title folklore may send a reader here. Those stories are not packet NAICS and not a census of Rhode Island classrooms.

390 award actions sit behind that dollar figure — hundreds of award actions behind a billion-dollar obligation total. Hundreds of rows can mix formula grants with smaller instruments. The join does not rank Rhode Island against other states and does not name districts inside the extract.

Open Department of Education in Rhode Island for the filtered table, Rhode Island federal spending for the next hub, Department of Education for the remaining hub, and All spending ties for other pairs.

390 Education actions under one Rhode Island filter

Dividing $1,133,100,563.73 by 390 yields about $2,905,386.06 per award on average. That average hides contracts, grants, and other instruments. It is not a typical Title grant. A second Education slice on another state uses the same agency code and a different dollar total. Do not treat Rhode Island's 091 total as a synonym for every Education account.

Urban-district, higher-ed, and statewide title folklore is a coding conversation, not a packet field. Agency names and recipient rows live on the overlay table, not in this narrative's extra columns.

Agency 091 without a Rhode Island overlay is a different total

The agency-wide Department of Education page aggregates 091 without requiring RI geography. The Rhode Island federal spending page aggregates all agencies with Rhode Island place of performance. Only Department of Education in Rhode Island applies both filters, which is why this tie cites 390 awards and $1,133,100,563.73.

Place of performance in Rhode Island is a USAspending geography field. Awards can list RI while later work occurs in Massachusetts or Connecticut. Education awards coded to those states do not sit in this total even if a vendor's mailroom is in Providence. This packet does not split Providence from Warwick or Newport.

Obligations, not outlays

An obligation is a legal commitment. An outlay is a payment. $1,133,100,563.73 is the former. This packet has no outlay total, no fiscal-year split, and no de-obligation history. Citing the figure as money already spent in Rhode Island over-reads the field.

Award count 390 is a record count, not a payment count. Readers who need transaction-level detail should use the Rhode Island-Education overlay. All spending ties does not hide a blended statewide total under this slug.

What this pair does not prove

A large Education total in Rhode Island does not mean the agency caused Rhode Island's school mix, and it does not connect these obligations to campaign contributions. Correlation between urban geography and Education awards is expected; it is not a finding about student outcomes or waste.

Keep $1,133,100,563.73 labeled as agency 091 obligations with Rhode Island place of performance. FEC individual contributions are a different dataset. An agency name that appears near a donor occupation is a coincidence of labeling, not a cash pipeline into USAspending.

How to cite the Rhode Island-Education pair

A clean footnote names awarding agency 091 (Department of Education), Rhode Island place of performance, $1,133,100,563.73 in obligations, and 390 awards on USAspending.gov. Keep the obligation word. Do not call $1,133,100,563.73 cash outlays. Mean dollars per action remain about $2,905,386.06 if you divide those two facts — a ratio, not a typical Title grant.

Department of Education in Rhode Island, Rhode Island federal spending, Department of Education, and All spending ties keep the same unit. A later ingest can restate $1,133,100,563.73 without changing the join definition. Rewrite only the sentence whose source moved. Providence-versus-Warwick folklore is not a metro split in this packet. District names belong on the overlay if they appear as recipients; they are not extra packet dollars. Keep the obligation label in every reuse. Correlation is not causation.

Questions

How much has the Education Department obligated in Rhode Island?

USAspending.gov records $1,133,100,563.73 in obligations for awarding agency 091 with Rhode Island place of performance, covering 390 awards. That is an obligation total, not an outlay total, and not Department of Education's nationwide budget. Original filings remain on the source sites.

Does this total include every Rhode Island school district?

The extract lists 390 award actions totaling $1,133,100,563.73. Average obligation per award is about $2,905,386.06, a ratio of two packet facts, not a typical Title grant. Unique recipients are not published here. Original filings remain on the source sites.

Is this a Providence-only Education total?

No. $1,133,100,563.73 and 390 awards are statewide Rhode Island place of performance. This packet does not split Providence from Warwick or Newport. A regional cut would be a different extract. Original filings remain on the source sites.

Where is the live Education-Rhode Island table?

Department of Education in Rhode Island is the overlay. Rhode Island federal spending shows all agencies in the state. Department of Education shows agency 091 without a state filter. All spending ties lists other pairs. Original filings remain on the source sites.