Special Education Grants to States obligations in Tennessee

What the 84.027–Tennessee join is

CFDA 84.027 is titled SPECIAL EDUCATION GRANTS TO STATES. Crossed with Tennessee place of performance, obligations sum to $1,455,861,055.92 on 6 awards. The national IDEA Part B hub includes other states. Tennessee’s spending hub includes other programs. Only this intersection is reported here. $1,455,861,055.92 is an obligation aggregate from USAspending.gov, not an outlay and not a count of students with disabilities in Nashville or Memphis.

Six 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 Tennessee Department of Education, list districts, or count IEPs. Packet facts stop at $1,455,861,055.92, 6 awards, TN, and 84.027.

84.027 is not Title I in Tennessee

Title I Grants to Local Educational Agencies (CFDA 84.010) is a different Education catalog. Mixing Title I into $1,455,861,055.92 would invent a broader K–12 total than this cell contains. Facts available: Tennessee, CFDA 84.027, $1,455,861,055.92, 6 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 $1,455,861,055.92 by 6 yields about $242.64 million per award—a statewide formula scale, not a typical Knoxville district subgrant. Unique recipients are unpublished. 6 is not a count of schools.

Tennessee geography on the IDEA tag

TN is the place-of-performance code. A statewide formula award can still appear as a handful of records tagged to Nashville, Memphis, or another in-state address. Awards coded to Kentucky, Alabama, Georgia, or Arkansas stay outside $1,455,861,055.92 even when a student crosses a state line for services.

Tennessee federal spending is the all-program parent. 84.027 is one row on Tennessee programs. $1.46 billion is not the state’s complete federal footprint. Open Special Education Grants To States in Tennessee for the filtered table, CFDA 84.027 for 84.027 without a Tennessee filter, and All spending ties for other pairs. Do not add those parents into $1,455,861,055.92.

Reading 6 awards under $1.46 billion

$1,455,861,055.92 ÷ 6 is about $242.64 million per award. That average is a statewide formula 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 6 as a record count, not as 6 finished special-education programs.

USAspending obligations can be positive new awards or net of downward modifications; $1,455,861,055.92 is the net total supplied in the facts. Without a transaction register, you cannot see how many of the 6 rows are continuations, renewals, or corrections. Later ingests can restate $1,455,861,055.92 without changing the join key of 84.027 and TN.

What the IDEA–Tennessee pair does not prove

A large 84.027 total tagged to Tennessee 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 $1,455,861,055.92 on 6 awards for Special Education Grants to States in Tennessee.

Keep both sides of the join: Special Education Grants to States and Tennessee, obligations only. Do not annualize $1,455,861,055.92 without a year field—this packet publishes none. Do not treat 6 as a district census. Quote USAspending.gov and the overlay path rather than a compliance story.

Using the special-education–Tennessee overlay

The overlay target is the Tennessee × CFDA 84.027 table. Open Special Education Grants To States in Tennessee when you want the same $1,455,861,055.92 / 6-award cell in the site’s data chrome. CFDA 84.027 drops the Tennessee filter. Tennessee federal spending drops the CFDA filter. Tennessee 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 Tennessee won or lost federal money, that donations paid for the awards, or that obligations equal cash. The pair is 84.027 plus TN. Obligations of $1,455,861,055.92 are not outlays.

Questions

How much IDEA Part B funding is obligated in Tennessee?

USAspending records $1,455,861,055.92 in CFDA 84.027 obligations with Tennessee place of performance on 6 awards. That is the pair total, not an outlay and not every Education CFDA. Keep Special Education Grants To States and Tennessee together when citing $1,455,861,055.92.

Why are there only 6 awards for about $1.46 billion?

IDEA Grants to States often post as a small number of large assistance instruments to a state agency. The facts show 6 awards totaling $1,455,861,055.92. District names are not in the packet. The mean is about $242.64 million.

Is this Tennessee’s total federal education spending?

No. This join is CFDA 84.027 only. Title I and other Education catalogs appear on separate Tennessee program pages. Nationwide 84.027 is not limited to Tennessee. Obligations of $1,455,861,055.92 are not outlays. The overlay is the live Special Education Grants To States–Tennessee table.

Does six awards mean six school districts?

6 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 × TN pair.