Excerpt from Standard Form for Reporting the Financial Statistics of Public Schools Department of Commerce and Labor, Bureau op the Census, Washington, D. C., August 5, 1911. Sir: I have the honor to transmit herewith a monograph presenting and describing a standard form for reporting the financial statistics of public schools, prepared by Mr. Le Grand Powers, chief statistician in charge of statistics of cities, and Mr. W. S. Small, principal of the Eastern High School, of Washington, D. C., and presented by the latter at the annual meeting of the Department of Superintendence of the National Education Association, held at Mobile, Ala., February 23-25, 1911. In classification and terminology this "Standard Form" corresponds to that of Schedule G 34, now used by this bureau for reporting the financial statistics of schools. The obligation of the Bureau of the Census to present the financial statistics of schools is a part of its duty to prepare annually the financial statistics of cities. A large part of municipal expenditure is for purposes of education, and no statement of city finance would be complete without a presentation and analysis of the figures referring to schools. In the preparation of its schedules relating to school finances the Bureau of the Census has had the cordial cooperation and support of the Bureau of Education. The purpose of this monograph is to present to the fiscal officers of the public schools a practicable, uniform method of accounting. The adoption of such a uniform system of accounting and reporting will greatly facilitate the collection of the financial statistics of schools and materially reduce the cost of same. It will also make possible a comparison of the efficiency and economy of school systems, and will furnish a basis for a more intelligent study of school administration than has been possible heretofore. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.