Payments to Iowa School Districts from State Executive Branch Accounting

Payment transactions to Iowa School Districts recorded in the State of Iowa's central accounting system for the Executive Branch. The Iowa Department of Management enhanced the data by joining it to a crosswalk dataset to isolate school district payments and correct attribution for Local Option Sales Tax payments to the prior fiscal year. The dataset was last updated on March 14, 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyzing state payment patterns to school districts based on transaction data from the central accounting system.
• Tracking Local Option Sales Tax revenue allocations to districts based on the corrected fiscal year attribution mentioned in the description.
• Mapping vendor payments to specific school districts based on the crosswalk dataset referenced in the description.
• Auditing executive branch expenditures for education based on the enhanced checkbook data.

Strengths

• Data is enhanced by joining to a crosswalk dataset to accurately relate vendor numbers to school districts.
• Specific corrections are applied for Local Option Sales Tax payments to align with the correct fiscal year.
• Data is sourced directly from the State of Iowa's central accounting system for the Executive Branch.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

State of Iowa

Collection Method

Records from the State of Iowa's central accounting system, enhanced by the Iowa Department of Management via joins to a crosswalk dataset.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-14 21:45:18.500108; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Iowa, United States