This bibliography, conceived as one of the earliest undertakings of the survey, does for the materials published from 1923 to 1931 what the Educational Finance Inquiry's bibliography did for the earlier years. Like the earlier bibliography, this one aims to stimulate school executives and research workers to progress in financing education. In a way each heading in the bibliography represents one or more problems in school finance. Nearly every important heading opens and plainly marks new and easy highways to representative data, ideas, and statistics, and descriptions of practice essential for sound solutions of the problems involved. Accordingly the bibliography endeavors to include only usable materials. The closing date for regular references was September 1, 1931. [Best copy available has been provided.].

In 1932 the Office of Education published a bibliography on educational finance as one of the reports of the National Survey of School Finance (Bibliography on Educational Finance, 1923-31, U. S. Office of Education Bulletin 1932, No. 15). This bulletin contains a classified and annotated list of reports and studies published since that time, to be helpful to all persons concerned with providing educational facilities and the costs of providing them. The listing includes contents organized in these categories: (1) Ability to support schools; (2) Accounting and budgeting; (3) Administration costs; (4) Adult education; (5) Apportionment; (6) Bibliographies; (7) Bonds; (8) Building costs; (9) Business affairs; (10) Costs, general; (11) Costs vs. Efficiency; (12) Economies and good management; (13) Emergency funds; (14) Equalization of costs; (15) Federal government and school finance; (16) Foreign; (17) General; (18) Higher education costs; (19) Indebtedness; (20) Industrial depression and education; (21) Insurance; (22) Legislation; (23) Library costs; (24) Limitations on taxation; (25) Negro school costs; (26) Pensions and retirement pay; (27) Permanent funds; (28) Private school costs; (29) Safeguarding school funds; (30) Salaries; (31) Secondary school costs; (32) Sources of school revenue; (33) Special school costs; (34) State support; (35) Statistical; (36) State control; (37) Tax delinquencies; (38) Taxation; (39) Taxation exemptions; (40) Transportation costs; (41) Underlying financial implications; and (42) Value of education economically. [Best copy available has been provided.].