This report provides a national and state overview of teacher and postsecondary instructional staff salaries in the State of New York. The purpose of the report is to compare the salaries of teachers and faculties in New York between 1972-73 and 1985-86 with national trend data to determine: (1) if the purchasing power of teachers and faculties at…

Conventional research dealing with education finance in general and resource allocation in particular has focused on the raising of revenues at federal, state, and local levels and the subsequent apportionment of these resources across schooling systems, typically school districts. Concern about productivity and equity, however, cannot be…