Head Start obligations in Louisiana

What the 93.600–Louisiana join is

CFDA 93.600 is titled HEAD START. Filtered to Louisiana place of performance, obligations sum to $1,439,800,552.51 on 151 awards. The national Head Start hub includes every state. The Louisiana spending hub includes every program. This tie is the intersection. $1,439,800,552.51 is an obligation aggregate from USAspending.gov, not an outlay and not a count of funded slots in New Orleans or Baton Rouge.

One hundred fifty-one awards is a many-grantee pattern: Head Start often funds local agencies rather than a single statewide block. The join does not name those agencies, split Orleans from Acadiana, or count classrooms. Packet facts are $1,439,800,552.51, 151 awards, LA, and 93.600. Correlation is not causation.

93.600 is not CCDBG in Louisiana

The Child Care and Development Block Grant uses CFDA 93.575. Mixing CCDBG dollars into $1,439,800,552.51 would overstate this cell. Facts on this page: Louisiana, CFDA 93.600, $1,439,800,552.51, 151 awards. Enrollment, CLASS scores, and facility addresses are not in the facts.

The catalog title names Head Start, not a school-readiness ranking. Dividing $1,439,800,552.51 by 151 yields about $9.54 million per award—a local-agency scale smaller than a ten-award block because the count is higher. Unique recipients are unpublished. 151 is not a count of teachers.

Louisiana geography in the Head Start file

LA is the place-of-performance code. Awards billed to New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Shreveport, or other in-state sites can share the tag. Awards coded to Texas, Mississippi, or Arkansas stay outside $1,439,800,552.51 even when a grantee’s service area approaches the border. The code does not convert $1.44 billion into a parish map of centers.

Louisiana federal spending is the all-program parent. 93.600 is one row on Louisiana programs. $1.44 billion is not the state’s complete federal footprint. Open Head Start in Louisiana for the filtered table, CFDA 93.600 for 93.600 without a Louisiana filter, and All spending ties for other pairs. Do not add those parents into $1,439,800,552.51.

Reading 151 awards under $1.44 billion

$1,439,800,552.51 ÷ 151 is about $9.54 million per award. That average is a local-grantee scale, not a typical teacher salary. It is not a median. Net obligations can include downward modifications; the total shown is the aggregate in the facts. Treat 151 as a record count, not as 151 finished classrooms.

USAspending obligations can be positive new awards or net of downward modifications; $1,439,800,552.51 is the net total supplied in the facts. Without a transaction register, you cannot see how many of the 151 rows are continuations, renewals, or corrections. Later ingests can restate $1,439,800,552.51 without changing the join key of 93.600 and LA.

What the Head Start–Louisiana pair does not prove

A large 93.600 total tagged to Louisiana does not measure kindergarten readiness, and it does not equal slots filled. FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell. Correlation is not causation. The headline remains $1,439,800,552.51 on 151 awards for Head Start in Louisiana.

Keep both sides of the join: Head Start and Louisiana, obligations only. Do not annualize $1,439,800,552.51 without a year field—this packet publishes none. Do not treat 151 as a classroom census. Quote USAspending.gov and the overlay path rather than an early-childhood story.

Using the Head Start–Louisiana overlay

The overlay target is the Louisiana × CFDA 93.600 table. Open Head Start in Louisiana when you want the same $1,439,800,552.51 / 151-award cell in the site’s data chrome. CFDA 93.600 drops the Louisiana filter. Louisiana federal spending drops the CFDA filter. Louisiana programs lists other catalogs beside Head Start. All spending ties is the directory of other pairs.

This page exists because two tables meet: a CFDA program and a place-of-performance state. It does not exist to argue that Louisiana won or lost federal money, that donations paid for the awards, or that obligations equal cash. The pair is 93.600 plus LA. Obligations of $1,439,800,552.51 are not outlays.

Questions

How much Head Start funding is obligated in Louisiana?

USAspending records $1,439,800,552.51 in CFDA 93.600 obligations with Louisiana place of performance on 151 awards. That is the pair total, not an outlay and not CCDBG. Keep Head Start and Louisiana together when citing $1,439,800,552.51.

Does 151 awards mean 151 Head Start centers?

151 is a USAspending award-record count, not a center census. The implied mean is about $9.54 million per award. Unique recipients and slot counts are unpublished. 151 is a record count, not a person or facility census. The overlay is the live Head Start–Louisiana table.

Is this Louisiana’s total federal early-childhood spend?

No. $1,439,800,552.51 is only the 93.600 × Louisiana cell. CCDBG and other HHS catalogs appear on separate Louisiana program pages. Nationwide 93.600 is not limited to Louisiana. Obligations of $1,439,800,552.51 are not outlays.

Is Head Start the same as the child-care block grant?

No. Head Start is CFDA 93.600. The Child Care and Development Block Grant uses CFDA 93.575. Mixing those catalogs would invent a total larger than $1,439,800,552.51. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov for this 93.600 × LA pair.