Head Start obligations in Texas

What the 93.600–Texas join is

CFDA 93.600 is titled HEAD START. Crossed with Texas place of performance, obligations sum to $5,349,930,629.73 on 312 awards. The national Head Start hub includes other states. Texas’s spending hub includes other programs. Only this intersection is reported here. $5,349,930,629.73 is an obligation aggregate from USAspending.gov, not an outlay and not a count of Head Start classrooms in Houston, Dallas, or the Valley.

312 awards is a mid-thickness early-childhood book: denser than a five-row CHIP cell, thinner than many SNAP payment books. The join does not name grantees, list centers, or count enrolled children. Packet facts stop at $5,349,930,629.73, 312 awards, TX, and 93.600.

93.600 is not CCDBG or Title I

Child Care and Development Block Grant (CFDA 93.575) and Title I Grants to Local Educational Agencies (CFDA 84.010) are different catalogs. Mixing those dollars into $5,349,930,629.73 would invent a broader early-childhood total than this cell contains. Early Head Start may share the Head Start catalog in some filings; this packet does not split them. Facts available: Texas, CFDA 93.600, $5,349,930,629.73, 312 awards. Slot counts and PIR flags are not in the facts.

The catalog title names Head Start, not a ranking of county poverty. Dividing $5,349,930,629.73 by 312 yields about $17.15 million per award—a record-level ratio, not a typical center budget. Unique recipients are unpublished. 312 is not a count of classrooms.

Texas geography on the Head Start tag

TX is the place-of-performance code. A Head Start award can still appear as records tagged to Austin, Houston, or another in-state address. Awards coded to Oklahoma, New Mexico, or Louisiana stay outside $5,349,930,629.73 even when a family lives in a cross-border metro. The code does not convert $5.35 billion into a center map.

Texas federal spending is the all-program parent. 93.600 is one row on Texas programs. $5.35 billion is not the state’s complete federal footprint. Open Head Start in Texas for the filtered table, CFDA 93.600 for 93.600 without a Texas filter, and All spending ties for other pairs. Do not add those parents into $5,349,930,629.73.

Reading 312 awards under $5.35 billion

$5,349,930,629.73 ÷ 312 is about $17.15 million per award. That average is a ratio of two packet facts, not a typical classroom budget and not a median. Net obligations can include downward modifications; the total shown is the aggregate in the facts. Treat 312 as a record count, not as 312 finished programs.

USAspending obligations can be positive new awards or net of downward modifications; $5,349,930,629.73 is the net total supplied in the facts. Without a transaction register, you cannot see how many of the 312 rows are continuations, corrections, or five-year grants. Later ingests can restate $5,349,930,629.73 without changing the join key of 93.600 and TX.

What the Head Start–Texas pair does not prove

A large 93.600 total tagged to Texas does not measure whether children were school-ready, and it does not equal slots filled. FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell. Correlation is not causation. The headline remains $5,349,930,629.73 on 312 awards for Head Start in Texas.

Keep both sides of the join: Head Start and Texas, obligations only. Do not annualize $5,349,930,629.73 without a year field—this packet publishes none. Do not treat 312 as a classroom census. Quote USAspending.gov and the overlay path rather than an outcomes story.

Using the 93.600–Texas overlay

The overlay target is the Texas × CFDA 93.600 table. Open Head Start in Texas when you want the same $5,349,930,629.73 / 312-award cell in the site’s data chrome. CFDA 93.600 drops the Texas filter. Texas federal spending drops the CFDA filter. Texas programs lists other catalogs beside Head Start. All spending ties indexes 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 Texas won or lost federal money, that donations paid for the awards, or that obligations equal cash. The pair is 93.600 plus TX. Obligations of $5,349,930,629.73 are not outlays.

Questions

How much Head Start funding is obligated in Texas?

USAspending records $5,349,930,629.73 in CFDA 93.600 obligations with Texas place of performance on 312 awards. That is the pair total, not an outlay and not CCDBG. Keep Head Start and Texas together when citing $5,349,930,629.73.

Are 312 awards 312 Head Start centers?

312 is an award-record count, not a center census. Grantees can post many instruments. The mean is about $17.15 million per award, a ratio, not a typical classroom budget. Unique recipients are unpublished.

Is this Texas’s total early-childhood federal spending?

No. This join is CFDA 93.600 only. Child Care and Development Block Grant and Title I appear on separate Texas program pages. Nationwide 93.600 is not limited to Texas. Obligations of $5,349,930,629.73 are not outlays.

Where is the live 93.600–Texas table?

The overlay is Head Start in Texas. CFDA 93.600 drops the state filter. Texas federal spending and Texas programs are the state parents. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.