Department of Education federal obligations in Virginia
The Department of Education shows $14,149,942,233.18 in USAspending.gov obligations coded to Virginia, across 2,575 awards. Awarding-agency 091 and Virginia (VA) are the pair. The dollars are obligations, not outlays, and not a finding that Virginia “attracted” the awards. USAspending.gov is the source of the two integers.
Key figures
- Education in Virginia: $14,149,942,233.18 across 2,575 USAspending awards.
- Implied mean about $5.50 million per record, not a typical school-district award and not a typical student-aid line.
- Agency 091 × VA is not a student census, a FAFSA-volume score, or a school-quality grade.
- Cite obligations, not outlays, from USAspending.gov.
- Statewide VA is not NOVA versus Hampton Roads versus southwest Virginia.
Education’s Virginia-coded award book
Keep two filters in view. Awarding agency is Department of Education, agency 091. Geography is Virginia. The surviving file is $14,149,942,233.18 and 2,575 awards. Title I, student-aid, and other Education awarding offices can share agency 091. This packet does not split those programs. Other awarding agencies inside Virginia sit on other pages even when the same metro hosts their work.
Dollars per record come to about $5.50 million. That mean mixes large assistance or contract vehicles with smaller actions. It is not a typical school-district award and not a typical student-aid line. Unique recipients are unpublished. Virginia’s Education file is a few thousand award rows against a mid-teens billion sum. Low-count Education books often mix a few large assistance vehicles with smaller actions. The packet does not say which.
What the Education–Virginia pair is not
This join is not a student census, a FAFSA-volume score, or a school-quality grade. $14,149,942,233.18 measures award obligations with a 091 awarding-agency code and a VA place-of-performance tag. Virginia’s Northern Virginia counties sit next to the District. This packet does not split NOVA from Hampton Roads or southwest Virginia. DC and Maryland awards stay in other geography cells.
Department of Education in Virginia is the overlay. Virginia federal spending still includes every other awarding agency in the state extract. Department of Education is the parent agency hub without a Virginia filter. All spending ties holds the rest of the join list. Correlation is not causation: sharing a state with Education does not mean the state caused the cell.
Obligation versus outlay on agency 091
Assistance and contract awards can obligate in one fiscal window and pay on a different schedule. $14,149,942,233.18 is the commitment sum. Treating it as cash already cleared in Virginia confuses obligations with outlays. The packet does not assign a fiscal year to the headline; treat $14,149,942,233.18 as the obligation total present in the indexed file.
Virginia’s own budget is a separate ledger. Mixing it with the 2,575-row Education cell leaves USAspending.gov. Net obligations can include de-obligations. The implied mean near $5.50 million is dollars divided by records, not a typical school-district award and not a typical student-aid line.
One VA tag, not NOVA versus Hampton Roads versus southwest Virginia
This packet does not split $14,149,942,233.18 by county, metro, or Northern Virginia and the rest of the Commonwealth. 2,575 awards stay statewide. Neighboring Maryland, the District of Columbia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and North Carolina remain other state cells even when labor markets or projects cross those lines. Publishing NOVA versus Hampton Roads versus southwest Virginia as a subtotal would invent a number.
Place of performance can follow work in-state, a recipient address, or a reporting convention. Department of Education is the 091 hub without a Virginia filter. Use it for the agency book; use this page for the VA intersection only.
Citing Education in Virginia
Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Education (091) obligated $14,149,942,233.18 on 2,575 awards coded to Virginia. Name Education and Virginia together. Keep the obligation word. If Department of Education in Virginia has refreshed, quote the overlay over this snapshot.
Peer Education-state joins use the same two facts—dollars and award counts—and still are not a ranking of Education importance. Virginia federal spending includes other agency cells that must not be added into this total. All spending ties is the index. Obligations are not outlays.
How to reuse the Virginia Education integers
Keep Department of Education, Virginia, $14,149,942,233.18, and 2,575 awards together. Do not per-capita or per-recipient the dollar total; those denominators are unpublished. Do not treat 2,575 as unique organizations. Do not annualize without a year field. Virginia’s Education file is a few thousand award rows against a mid-teens billion sum. Low-count Education books often mix a few large assistance vehicles with smaller actions. The packet does not say which.
Refresh from Department of Education in Virginia after ingests. Department of Education is the 091 parent without a Virginia filter. Virginia federal spending is the all-agency parent. All spending ties indexes other pairs. USAspending.gov is the source. Keep the obligation label on $14,149,942,233.18.
Questions
- How much Education spending is coded to Virginia?
- USAspending.gov lists $14,149,942,233.18 in Department of Education obligations across 2,575 Virginia-coded awards. Agency 091 × VA is an obligation join, not an outlay. Department of Education in Virginia is the live overlay. Later ingests can revise 2,575 awards; prefer the overlay if the table moved.
- What programs sit inside the Education–Virginia total?
- The packet does not split Title I, student aid, and other Education programs. $14,149,942,233.18 is the combined obligation sum for awarding agency 091 inside Virginia coding. Unique recipients are unpublished. Quote $14,149,942,233.18 and 2,575 together. Do not infer a program mix from the state tag alone.
- Is $14,149,942,233.18 cash already spent in Virginia?
- No. $14,149,942,233.18 is an obligation total on USAspending.gov, not an outlay register and not a Treasury payment file. Awards can obligate in one window and pay on another. SpendingVault indexes the pair; it does not convert 2,575 awards into cash already paid.
- Where is the live Education–Virginia table?
- Department of Education in Virginia is the overlay at /states/va/agencies/091/. Virginia federal spending and Department of Education are the parent hubs, not addends. All spending ties lists other agency-state pairs. Keep both sides of the join when citing $14,149,942,233.18. Obligations are not outlays.
USAspending.gov aggregate of federal obligations by state and awarding agency. Obligations are not outlays.