Department of Education federal obligations in Wisconsin

Education awards tagged to Wisconsin

Department of Education as awarding agency, Wisconsin as place-of-performance: 1,905 records summing to $5,536,341,867.03. A Department of Education award coded outside WI is out. An award in Wisconsin from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Wisconsin (WI) excludes Minnesota, Illinois, Iowa, and Michigan. A Duluth-coded award is Minnesota.

One thousand nine hundred five awards sits in the Education mid-band: more than a thousand-row file, fewer than a HUD assistance flood. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 1,905 as 1,905 unique enrollment, unique districts, or named universities. The overlay Department of Education in Wisconsin is the both-keys table. Wisconsin federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Department of Education is the agency book without a WI filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

Milwaukee, Madison, and CESA regions are unpublished. $5,536,341,867.03 is 091 × WI only. Correlation is not causation: Wisconsin did not “cause” $5,536,341,867.03 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 091 × WI only.

Not a Milwaukee or Madison report card

$5,536,341,867.03 does not measure enrollment, unique districts, or named universities. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 091 and a WI place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 1,905 awards as a census of enrollment, unique districts, or named universities. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Wisconsin federal spending or Department of Education matched $5,536,341,867.03 and 1,905, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Minnesota, Illinois, and Michigan Education joins are other pairs, not addends.

Wisconsin, not a Minnesota twin

Place of performance WI is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. Wisconsin (WI) excludes Minnesota, Illinois, Iowa, and Michigan. A Duluth-coded award is Minnesota. Recipient address can differ from that state tag.

Milwaukee, Madison, and CESA regions are unpublished. $5,536,341,867.03 is 091 × WI only. This packet does not split $5,536,341,867.03 by city, county, or named facility. 1,905 awards stay statewide. A county table would be a different extract.

Obligations versus DPI pass-through cash

Even a thick or thin file records obligations, not necessarily outlays. $5,536,341,867.03 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in Wisconsin confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

Wisconsin’s own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 1,905-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 $5,536,341,867.03.

Citing Education in Wisconsin

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Education (agency 091) obligated $5,536,341,867.03 on 1,905 awards coded to Wisconsin. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as enrollment, unique districts, or named universities.

Prefer Department of Education in Wisconsin if the overlay has refreshed after an ingest. Wisconsin federal spending still includes every other awarding agency tagged to WI. Department of Education is the 091 parent without the WI filter. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $5,536,341,867.03.

A usable footnote names Department of Education, Wisconsin, $5,536,341,867.03, and 1,905. The compact headline $5.54 billion is that same dollar total rounded. It is not a second extract. The implied mean near $2.91 million is $5,536,341,867.03 divided by 1,905. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.

One thousand nine hundred five awards sits in the Education mid-band: more than a thousand-row file, fewer than a HUD assistance flood. On this join the implied mean near $2.91 million should not be treated as a typical award size. Without a distribution, $5,536,341,867.03 can be dominated by a few rows even when 1,905 is large, or by those same few rows when 1,905 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 Wisconsin (WI). Place of performance still does not mean every dollar was disbursed locally. Obligations still do not mean outlays. Milwaukee, Madison, and CESA regions are unpublished. $5,536,341,867.03 is 091 × WI only.

Questions

How much has the Department of Education obligated in Wisconsin?

USAspending.gov records $5,536,341,867.03 across 1,905 awards with awarding agency 091 and a Wisconsin tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of enrollment, unique districts, or named universities. Department of Education in Wisconsin is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $5,536,341,867.03.

Is $5,536,341,867.03 a measure of enrollment, unique districts, or named universities?

No. The packet publishes $5,536,341,867.03 and 1,905 awards for agency 091 inside WI 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 1,905 awards?

That is the award-record count for 091 × WI. Combined with $5,536,341,867.03, the average is about $2.91 million. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 1,905 is not unique enrollment, unique districts, or named universities. Later ingests can revise the count. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live table?

Department of Education in Wisconsin is the overlay. Wisconsin 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 $5,536,341,867.03. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.