Department of Education federal obligations in South Dakota

What the Education-South Dakota join is

Awarding agency 091 and place-of-performance state SD meet here. $1,243,159,899.49 is the obligation sum on awards that carry both tags. It is not Department of Education's nationwide budget, not South Dakota's entire federal inflow, and not cash already paid. Rural-school, BIE-adjacent, and statewide Title folklore may send a reader here. Those stories are not packet NAICS and not a census of South Dakota classrooms.

969 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 South Dakota against other states and does not name districts inside the extract.

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

969 Education actions under one South Dakota filter

Dividing $1,243,159,899.49 by 969 yields about $1,282,930.75 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 South Dakota's 091 total as a synonym for every Education account.

Rural-school, bie-adjacent, 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 South Dakota overlay is a different total

The agency-wide Department of Education page aggregates 091 without requiring SD geography. The South Dakota federal spending page aggregates all agencies with South Dakota place of performance. Only Department of Education in South Dakota applies both filters, which is why this tie cites 969 awards and $1,243,159,899.49.

Place of performance in South Dakota is a USAspending geography field. Awards can list SD while later work occurs in North Dakota or Nebraska. Education awards coded to those states do not sit in this total even if a vendor's mailroom is in Sioux Falls. This packet does not split Sioux Falls from Rapid City or the reservation districts.

Obligations, not outlays

An obligation is a legal commitment. An outlay is a payment. $1,243,159,899.49 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 South Dakota over-reads the field.

Award count 969 is a record count, not a payment count. Readers who need transaction-level detail should use the South Dakota-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 South Dakota does not mean the agency caused South Dakota's school mix, and it does not connect these obligations to campaign contributions. Correlation between rural geography and Education awards is expected; it is not a finding about student outcomes or waste.

Keep $1,243,159,899.49 labeled as agency 091 obligations with South Dakota 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 South Dakota-Education pair

A clean footnote names awarding agency 091 (Department of Education), South Dakota place of performance, $1,243,159,899.49 in obligations, and 969 awards on USAspending.gov. Keep the obligation word. Do not call $1,243,159,899.49 cash outlays. Mean dollars per action remain about $1,282,930.75 if you divide those two facts — a ratio, not a typical Title grant.

Department of Education in South Dakota, South Dakota federal spending, Department of Education, and All spending ties keep the same unit. A later ingest can restate $1,243,159,899.49 without changing the join definition. Rewrite only the sentence whose source moved. Sioux Falls-versus-Rapid City 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 South Dakota?

USAspending.gov records $1,243,159,899.49 in obligations for awarding agency 091 with South Dakota place of performance, covering 969 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 South Dakota school district?

The extract lists 969 award actions totaling $1,243,159,899.49. Average obligation per award is about $1,282,930.75, 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 Sioux Falls-only Education total?

No. $1,243,159,899.49 and 969 awards are statewide South Dakota place of performance. This packet does not split Sioux Falls from Rapid City or the reservation districts. A regional cut would be a different extract. Original filings remain on the source sites.

Where is the live Education-South Dakota table?

Department of Education in South Dakota is the overlay. South Dakota 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.