Head Start obligations in Michigan

Head Start dollars tagged to Michigan

CFDA 93.600 (HEAD START) plus Michigan place of performance sums to $2,642,541,099.38 on 147 awards. The national Head Start hub includes every state. The Michigan spending hub includes every program. This tie is the intersection.

One hundred forty-seven awards is a local-grantee pattern rather than a single statewide block. The join does not name those grantees, split Detroit from the Upper Peninsula, or count funded slots. Packet facts are $2,642,541,099.38, 147 awards, MI, and 93.600.

Readers sometimes treat a large CFDA–state total as if it were a budget line the state legislature passed. $2,642,541,099.38 is not that. It is the USAspending obligation sum on awards tagged 93.600 and MI. The overlay table at the program-in-state path is the same cell rendered as a page; this narrative is the join explained in prose. Nothing here ranks Michigan against other states on need, performance, or politics.

One hundred forty-seven awards totaling $2,642,541,099.38 (about $17.98 million mean) is Head Start tagged Michigan. Detroit is not isolated. CCDBG is a different CFDA. Site counts are not equal to award counts.

93.600 versus Michigan’s child-care block grant

Head Start and the Child Care and Development Block Grant are different CFDA numbers. Mixing CCDBG into $2,642,541,099.38 would overstate this cell. Other HHS catalogs in Michigan sit on separate program pages.

Facts on this page: Michigan, CFDA 93.600, $2,642,541,099.38, 147 awards. Enrollment, CLASS scores, and facility addresses are not in the facts. The catalog title names Head Start, not a school-readiness ranking.

The only numeric facts on this packet are $2,642,541,099.38, 147 awards, CFDA 93.600, program title Head Start, and geography MI/Michigan. Any other dollar, year, recipient, or percentage would be invented. Trivial arithmetic from those facts is allowed: 147 awards into $2,642,541,099.38 is about $17.98 million per award. That quotient is a mean of records, not a typical household, student, or lab.

Michigan CCDBG is a sibling early-childhood catalog with a different CFDA and a different award count. $2,642,541,099.38 is Head Start only. Do not add the two cells and call the sum “child care.”

Michigan as a geography code

MI is the USAspending place-of-performance tag. Awards billed to Detroit, Grand Rapids, or other in-state sites can share the code. Awards coded to Ohio, Indiana, or Wisconsin stay outside $2,642,541,099.38.

Michigan federal spending is the all-program parent. CFDA 93.600 is one row on the Michigan programs list. $2.64 billion is not the state’s complete federal footprint.

Place of performance MI is a two-letter code in the award file. It can mark a state capital, a campus, a housing authority, a transit agency, or a default statewide tag. It does not prove where every subcontract ran, and it does not convert $2,642,541,099.38 into a county map. Awards with a different state code are outside this cell even if people, patients, or riders cross the border.

Reading 147 awards under $2.64 billion

$2,642,541,099.38 ÷ 147 is about $18.0 million per award. That average is a local-grantee scale, not a typical teacher salary and not a per-child cost. It is not a median. Net obligations can include downward modifications; the total shown is the aggregate in the facts.

Treat 147 as a record count in an aggregate, not as 147 finished projects. USAspending obligations can be positive new awards or net of downward modifications; the $2,642,541,099.38 figure is the net total supplied in the facts. Without a transaction register on this page, you cannot see how many of the 147 rows are continuations, renewals, or corrections.

Using the Head Start–Michigan overlay

The overlay target for this tie is the Michigan × CFDA 93.600 table. Open that path when you want the same $2,642,541,099.38 / 147-award cell in the site’s data chrome. The national program page for CFDA 93.600 drops the Michigan filter. The Michigan spending hub drops the CFDA filter. The Michigan programs index 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 Michigan “won” or “lost” federal money, that donations paid for the awards, or that obligations equal cash. Correlation is not causation. The headline number remains $2,642,541,099.38 on 147 awards, from USAspending.gov, for Head Start in Michigan.

What the join does not prove

A large Head Start total in Michigan does not measure program quality, and it does not equal cash already spent on classrooms. FEC filings do not fund this USAspending cell. Correlation is not causation.

See Head Start in Michigan, CFDA 93.600, Michigan federal spending, Michigan programs, and All spending ties.

Questions

How much Head Start funding is obligated in Michigan?

USAspending records $2,642,541,099.38 in CFDA 93.600 obligations with Michigan place of performance across 147 awards. That is the pair aggregate, not an outlay and not the Child Care Block Grant.

Does 147 awards mean 147 centers?

No. The facts report 147 awards totaling $2,642,541,099.38. A grantee can operate multiple sites. Site counts are not in the packet facts.

Is this the same as Michigan’s child-care block grant?

No. CCDBG uses a different CFDA number. This page is 93.600 only.

What is the average award?

About $18.0 million ($2,642,541,099.38 ÷ 147). That mean is not a per-child cost.