Special Education Grants to States obligations in Massachusetts

What the 84.027–Massachusetts join is

CFDA 84.027 is titled SPECIAL EDUCATION GRANTS TO STATES. Crossed with Massachusetts place of performance, obligations sum to $2,018,949,321.53 on 7 awards. The national IDEA Part B hub includes other states. Massachusetts’s spending hub includes other programs. Only this intersection is reported here. $2,018,949,321.53 is an obligation aggregate from USAspending.gov, not an outlay and not a count of students with disabilities in Boston or Worcester.

Seven awards is a concentrated formula-grant pattern: IDEA Part B to States typically posts as a small number of large assistance instruments to a state education agency. The join does not name the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, list districts, or count IEPs. Packet facts stop at $2,018,949,321.53, 7 awards, MA, and 84.027.

84.027 is not Title I

Title I Grants to Local Educational Agencies (CFDA 84.010) is a different Education catalog. Mixing Title I into $2,018,949,321.53 would invent a broader K–12 total than this cell contains. Preschool grants and personnel development use other numbers still. Facts available: Massachusetts, CFDA 84.027, $2,018,949,321.53, 7 awards. Child counts and maintenance-of-effort worksheets are not in the facts.

The catalog title names Special Education Grants to States, not a ranking of district compliance. Dividing $2,018,949,321.53 by 7 yields about $288.42 million per award—a ratio of two packet facts, not a typical Cambridge district subgrant and not a per-pupil IDEA allocation. Unique recipients are unpublished. 7 is not a count of schools.

Massachusetts geography on the IDEA tag

MA is the place-of-performance code. A statewide formula award can still appear as a handful of records tagged to Boston, Malden, or another in-state address. Awards coded to Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Connecticut, or New York stay outside $2,018,949,321.53 even when a student crosses a state line for services.

Massachusetts federal spending is the all-program parent. 84.027 is one row on Massachusetts programs. $2.02 billion is not the state’s complete federal footprint. Open Special Education Grants To States in Massachusetts for the filtered table, CFDA 84.027 for 84.027 without a Massachusetts filter, and All spending ties for other pairs. Do not add those parents into $2,018,949,321.53.

Reading 7 awards under $2.02 billion

$2,018,949,321.53 ÷ 7 is about $288.42 million per award. That average is a statewide formula 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 7 as a record count, not as 7 finished special-education programs.

USAspending obligations can be positive new awards or net of downward modifications; $2,018,949,321.53 is the net total supplied in the facts. Without a transaction register, you cannot see how many of the 7 rows are continuations, renewals, or corrections. Later ingests can restate $2,018,949,321.53 without changing the join key of 84.027 and MA.

What the IDEA–Massachusetts pair does not prove

A large 84.027 total tagged to Massachusetts does not measure whether identification rates rose, and it does not equal services delivered. FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell. Correlation is not causation. The headline remains $2,018,949,321.53 on 7 awards for Special Education Grants to States in Massachusetts.

Keep both sides of the join: Special Education Grants to States and Massachusetts, obligations only. Do not annualize $2,018,949,321.53 without a year field—this packet publishes none. Do not treat 7 as a district census. Quote USAspending.gov and the overlay path rather than a compliance story.

Using the special-education–Massachusetts overlay

The overlay target is the Massachusetts × CFDA 84.027 table. Open Special Education Grants To States in Massachusetts when you want the same $2,018,949,321.53 / 7-award cell in the site’s data chrome. CFDA 84.027 drops the Massachusetts filter. Massachusetts federal spending drops the CFDA filter. Massachusetts programs lists other catalogs beside Special Education Grants to States. 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 Massachusetts won or lost federal money, that donations paid for the awards, or that obligations equal cash. The pair is 84.027 plus MA. Obligations of $2,018,949,321.53 are not outlays.

Questions

How much IDEA Part B funding is obligated in Massachusetts?

USAspending records $2,018,949,321.53 in CFDA 84.027 obligations with Massachusetts place of performance on 7 awards. That is the pair total, not an outlay and not every Education CFDA. Keep Special Education Grants To States and Massachusetts together when citing $2,018,949,321.53.

Why are there only 7 awards for more than $2 billion?

IDEA Grants to States often post as a small number of large assistance instruments to a state agency. The facts show 7 awards totaling $2,018,949,321.53. District names are not in the packet. The mean is about $288.42 million.

Is this Massachusetts’s total federal education spending?

No. This join is CFDA 84.027 only. Title I and other Education catalogs appear on separate Massachusetts program pages. Nationwide 84.027 is not limited to Massachusetts. Obligations of $2,018,949,321.53 are not outlays. The overlay is the live Special Education Grants To States–Massachusetts table.

Does seven awards mean seven school districts?

7 is an award-record count, not a district census. A state education agency can be the awardee even when many districts receive subgrants. Unique recipients are unpublished. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov for this 84.027 × MA pair.