Head Start obligations in Mississippi

What the 93.600–Mississippi join is

CFDA 93.600 is titled HEAD START. Filtered to Mississippi place of performance, obligations sum to $1,610,764,643.04 on 75 awards. The national Head Start hub includes every state. The Mississippi spending hub includes every program. This tie is the intersection. $1,610,764,643.04 is an obligation aggregate from USAspending.gov, not an outlay and not a count of funded slots in Jackson or the Delta.

Seventy-five 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 Hinds from the Gulf Coast, or count classrooms. Packet facts are $1,610,764,643.04, 75 awards, MS, and 93.600. Correlation is not causation.

93.600 is not CCDBG in Mississippi

The Child Care and Development Block Grant uses CFDA 93.575. Mixing CCDBG dollars into $1,610,764,643.04 would overstate this cell. Facts on this page: Mississippi, CFDA 93.600, $1,610,764,643.04, 75 awards. Enrollment, CLASS scores, and facility addresses are not in the facts.

The catalog title names Head Start, not a school-readiness ranking. Dividing $1,610,764,643.04 by 75 yields about $21.48 million per award—a local-agency scale. Unique recipients are unpublished. 75 is not a count of teachers or children.

Mississippi geography in the Head Start file

MS is the place-of-performance code. Awards billed to Jackson, Gulfport, Tupelo, or other in-state sites can share the tag. Awards coded to Alabama, Louisiana, Tennessee, or Arkansas stay outside $1,610,764,643.04 even when a grantee’s service area approaches the border. The code does not convert $1.61 billion into a county map of centers.

Mississippi federal spending is the all-program parent. 93.600 is one row on Mississippi programs. $1.61 billion is not the state’s complete federal footprint. Open Head Start in Mississippi for the filtered table, CFDA 93.600 for 93.600 without a Mississippi filter, and All spending ties for other pairs. Do not add those parents into $1,610,764,643.04.

Reading 75 awards under $1.61 billion

$1,610,764,643.04 ÷ 75 is about $21.48 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 75 as a record count, not as 75 finished classrooms.

USAspending obligations can be positive new awards or net of downward modifications; $1,610,764,643.04 is the net total supplied in the facts. Without a transaction register, you cannot see how many of the 75 rows are continuations, renewals, or corrections. Later ingests can restate $1,610,764,643.04 without changing the join key of 93.600 and MS.

What the Head Start–Mississippi pair does not prove

A large 93.600 total tagged to Mississippi 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 $1,610,764,643.04 on 75 awards for Head Start in Mississippi.

Keep both sides of the join: Head Start and Mississippi, obligations only. Do not annualize $1,610,764,643.04 without a year field—this packet publishes none. Do not treat 75 as a classroom census. Quote USAspending.gov and the overlay path rather than an early-childhood story.

Using the Head Start–Mississippi overlay

The overlay target is the Mississippi × CFDA 93.600 table. Open Head Start in Mississippi when you want the same $1,610,764,643.04 / 75-award cell in the site’s data chrome. CFDA 93.600 drops the Mississippi filter. Mississippi federal spending drops the CFDA filter. Mississippi 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 Mississippi won or lost federal money, that donations paid for the awards, or that obligations equal cash. The pair is 93.600 plus MS. Obligations of $1,610,764,643.04 are not outlays.

Questions

How much Head Start funding is obligated in Mississippi?

USAspending records $1,610,764,643.04 in CFDA 93.600 obligations with Mississippi place of performance on 75 awards. That is the pair total, not an outlay and not CCDBG. Keep Head Start and Mississippi together when citing $1,610,764,643.04.

Does 75 awards mean 75 Head Start centers?

75 is a USAspending award-record count, not a center census. The implied mean is about $21.48 million per award. Unique recipients and slot counts are unpublished. 75 is a record count, not a person or facility census. The overlay is the live Head Start–Mississippi table.

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

No. $1,610,764,643.04 is only the 93.600 × Mississippi cell. CCDBG and other HHS catalogs appear on separate Mississippi program pages. Nationwide 93.600 is not limited to Mississippi. Obligations of $1,610,764,643.04 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 $1,610,764,643.04. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov for this 93.600 × MS pair.