Department of Education federal obligations in West Virginia

Education awards tagged to West Virginia

Department of Education as awarding agency, West Virginia as place-of-performance: 981 records summing to $2,666,066,746.53. A Department of Education award coded outside WV is out. An award in West Virginia from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. West Virginia (WV) excludes Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Kentucky, and Maryland. A Pittsburgh-coded award is Pennsylvania.

Nine hundred eighty-one awards is a modest Education book: a typical formula-file size, not a farm-program flood. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 981 as 981 unique enrollment, graduation rates, or unique districts. The overlay Department of Education in West Virginia is the both-keys table. West Virginia federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Department of Education is the agency book without a WV filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

This packet does not name Title I, IDEA, or Pell as line items inside the dollar total. Correlation is not causation: West Virginia did not “cause” $2,666,066,746.53 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 091 × WV only.

Test scores are not USAspending fields

$2,666,066,746.53 does not measure enrollment, graduation rates, or unique districts. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 091 and a WV place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 981 awards as a census of enrollment, graduation rates, or unique districts. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If West Virginia federal spending or Department of Education matched $2,666,066,746.53 and 981, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Kentucky Education joins are other pairs, not addends.

West Virginia statewide, not mountain versus river cities

Place of performance WV is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. West Virginia (WV) excludes Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Kentucky, and Maryland. A Pittsburgh-coded award is Pennsylvania. Recipient address can differ from that state tag.

This packet does not name Title I, IDEA, or Pell as line items inside the dollar total. This packet does not split $2,666,066,746.53 by city, county, or named facility. 981 awards stay statewide. A county table would be a different extract.

Modest formula file versus district warrants

Even a thick or thin file records obligations, not necessarily outlays. $2,666,066,746.53 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in West Virginia confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

West Virginia’s own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 981-award USAspending file leaves this series. No fiscal year is published in this packet, so this page does not invent one. Keep the obligation label on $2,666,066,746.53.

Citing Education in West Virginia

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Education (agency 091) obligated $2,666,066,746.53 on 981 awards coded to West Virginia. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as enrollment, graduation rates, or unique districts.

Prefer Department of Education in West Virginia if the overlay has refreshed after an ingest. West Virginia federal spending still includes every other awarding agency tagged to WV. Department of Education is the 091 parent without the WV filter. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $2,666,066,746.53.

A usable footnote names Department of Education, West Virginia, $2,666,066,746.53, and 981. The compact headline $2.67 billion is that same dollar total rounded. It is not a second extract. The implied mean near $2.72 million is $2,666,066,746.53 divided by 981. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.

Nine hundred eighty-one awards is a modest Education book: a typical formula-file size, not a farm-program flood. On this join the implied mean near $2.72 million should not be treated as a typical award size. Without a distribution, $2,666,066,746.53 can be dominated by a few rows even when 981 is large, or by those same few rows when 981 is small. This page will not pretend to know which pattern holds. It keeps repeating the two facts and the two keys: Department of Education (091) and West Virginia (WV). Place of performance still does not mean every dollar was disbursed locally. Obligations still do not mean outlays. This packet does not name Title I, IDEA, or Pell as line items inside the dollar total.

Questions

How much has the Department of Education obligated in West Virginia?

USAspending.gov records $2,666,066,746.53 across 981 awards with awarding agency 091 and a West Virginia tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of enrollment, graduation rates, or unique districts. Department of Education in West Virginia is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $2,666,066,746.53.

Is $2,666,066,746.53 a measure of enrollment, graduation rates, or unique districts?

No. The packet publishes $2,666,066,746.53 and 981 awards for agency 091 inside WV coding. Those other series are unpublished here. Unique recipients are unpublished. Quote the dollar total and the award count together. Obligations are not outlays.

Why does this Education file have 981 awards?

That is the award-record count for 091 × WV. Combined with $2,666,066,746.53, the average is about $2.72 million. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 981 is not unique enrollment, graduation rates, or unique districts. Later ingests can revise the count. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live table?

Department of Education in West Virginia is the overlay. West Virginia federal spending and Department of Education are the parents, not addends. All spending ties lists other pairs. Keep both sides of the join when citing $2,666,066,746.53. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.