Department of Education federal obligations in Virginia 4th District (VA-04)
Department of Education shows $2,517,768,241.81 in USAspending.gov obligations with Virginia 4th District (VA-04) as place of performance. One hundred ninety awards carry that total. The join is awarding-agency 091 crossed with Virginia 4th District (VA-04) place of performance, not Virginia’s statewide education book and not a census of schools. The dollars are commitments, not Treasury outlays.
Key figures
- Department of Education in Virginia 4th District (VA-04) shows $2,517,768,241.81 in USAspending obligations on 190 awards.
- One hundred ninety awards are agency-091 rows, not a school census.
- The join is Education plus Virginia 4th District (VA-04), not Energy’s VA-03 pair.
- The total is commitments, not aid already drawn.
Virginia 4th District × Education is a place-of-performance join, not a school census
This page pairs awarding-agency 091, Department of Education, with Virginia 4th District (VA-04) place of performance. The join is awarding-agency 091 crossed with Virginia 4th District (VA-04) place of performance, not Virginia’s statewide education book and not a census of schools. SpendingVault sums tagged obligations: $2,517,768,241.81 on 190 awards. The extract does not list districts, campuses, or student counts. Treat the pair as a catalog intersection, not a ranking of which district has more need, and not a claim that 190 awards equal 190 districts or 190 campuses.
Energy on agency 089 in Virginia 3rd District on this slice is a different agency and a different district. Mixing those listings into $2,517,768,241.81 would invent a combined figure the packet never computed. Correlation between this obligation sum and enrollment is not causation. Enrollment figures are not in the packet. Place of performance as Virginia 4th District (VA-04) locates the tagged awards; it does not deposit $2,517,768,241.81 in a district treasury. Richmond folklore is not a city-county split in this packet. A Richmond capital-region campus story is not a packet fact and does not explain the cell.
190 Education awards behind the VA-04 obligation sum
Mean obligation is about $13,251,411.80 if $2,517,768,241.81 were divided evenly across 190 lines. That ratio is not a published Title I allocation and not a cost per student. Award count is a row count, including possible continuations and modifications. It is not a count of schools, districts, or students. The 190 rows are a mid-volume grant file.
One hundred ninety lines are a mid-volume assistance file. Sort the Virginia 4th District overlay by amount to see concentration. This page will not invent recipient names. Open Virginia 4th District for the stored table. Do not convert 190 into a map of Richmond-area schools. The $2,517,768,241.81 total remains an obligation rollup on tagged awards. Inspect named lines rather than inferring a student census.
Agency 091 obligations in VA-04 are not aid already drawn by districts
Education awards often obligate as formula or discretionary grants and draw as school years proceed. The $2,517,768,241.81 headline is the obligation sum, not a punch-list of students served and not a Treasury outlay total. No fiscal year is attached. A EDFacts allocation table dated to a particular year is not automatically this join unless it uses agency 091, Virginia 4th District (VA-04) geography, and the obligation metric.
The awarding-agency title is Department of Education (code 091). This extract does not split K-12 from postsecondary, and it does not split formula from discretionary. Those cuts would require award documentation beyond dollars, 190 awards, agency 091, and Virginia 4th District (VA-04). This page will not invent a share. Hampton Roads Energy dollars on VA-03 are a different join.
What the VA-04 × agency 091 table omits
The extract has no districts, campuses, or student counts. Facts remain $2,517,768,241.81, 190 awards, agency 091, and Virginia 4th District (VA-04). This page will not invent a ranking against other districts’ agency-091 joins. VA-03’s Energy overlay on this slice uses agency 089, not 091.
Virginia federal spending and Virginia 4th District place agency 091 among other listings. Department of Education is the national agency hub. All spending ties indexes other district × agency pairs. Mixing those shelves would invent a share of federal spending the packet never computed. The $2,517,768,241.81 figure is the tagged pair only. Campaign-finance filings are a different public-record system; this join does not claim donations funded these obligations.
Where the Education × Virginia 4th District overlay lives
Start with Virginia 4th District for the 190-award table behind $2,517,768,241.81. Department of Education is the nationwide Department of Education hub. Virginia federal spending gives Virginia context. All spending ties is the shelf for other district-by-agency joins on the same obligation metric. One hundred ninety awards totaling $2,517,768,241.81 remain an awarding-agency file, not a school census. Campus names and student counts are not in this packet. The $2,517,768,241.81 total is the tagged pair only. USAspending.gov remains the source; SpendingVault republishes the join. If a later extract revises the rollup, this page’s facts will be stale until the packet is rebuilt. Do not annualize $2,517,768,241.81: no fiscal year is in the facts.
How to read the VA-04 × Education pair
A ties page exists because two tables meet. One table is awarding agency 091 (Department of Education). The other is congressional-district place of performance as Virginia 4th District (VA-04). The headline $2,517,768,241.81 is the obligation sum on that intersection, about 19.2 percent of the district’s $13,111,280,853.32 all-agency obligation book. It is not a forecast, not a budget request, and not an outlay. It is also not a claim that Department of Education caused Virginia 4th District (VA-04)’s economy to grow. Correlation between geography and an awarding-agency code is the join — nothing more. Use the internal links to step off this pair. If you need award-level names, open the overlay rather than treating this narrative as a recipient directory.
Questions
- How much Department of Education funding is obligated in VA-04?
- USAspending.gov shows $2,517,768,241.81 in obligations for Department of Education (agency 091) with Virginia 4th District (VA-04) as place of performance, across 190 awards. The sum is a commitment total, not outlays and not Virginia 4th District (VA-04)’s full federal book. Other agencies tagged to VA-04 sit on separate pages.
- Do 190 awards mean 190 Virginia school districts?
- No. Award count is a row count of USAspending actions and can include continuations. It is not a district or student census. The packet does not name recipients. See the Virginia 4th District overlay for named lines as USAspending stored them.
- Does this include Energy awards in Virginia 3rd District?
- No. This page is awarding-agency 091 crossed with Virginia 4th District (VA-04). Energy in VA-03 is a different agency and a different district. Those dollars are not inside $2,517,768,241.81. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.
- Is the Education total in VA-04 already paid to schools?
- Not on this metric. Obligations are recorded commitments on awards. Outlays are payments from the Treasury. The $2,517,768,241.81 headline is the obligation rollup in SpendingVault’s extract. Draws, remaining balances, and per-pupil tables are not published in this packet.
USAspending.gov congressional district place-of-performance joined to awarding agency. District 90/98 (multi/non-voting placeholders) are omitted. Obligations are not outlays.