Education Stimulus Recipient Reported Data Set for Your Use

When the first round of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act federal recipient reported data was released on www.recovery.gov in early November, we discussed the lack of comprehensive data available for sub-recipients of funds such as local education agencies. In fact, the original data available on-line does not include codes identifying the program source of sub-recipient funds in each record, let alone what the funds were used for. Thanks to help from the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board (RATB), the organization that oversees the data collection, we were able to separate out all Department of Education program data and apply identifying information to the sub-recipient data. This complete data set can be downloaded on the right under “Related Files” for your use.

We hope this data proves helpful as more outlets seek to better understand the distribution of the stimulus funds in education and further mine the data. Please let us know if you have any questions about this data or how to use it. An explanation of how we created this data set can be downloaded as well.