Compares salaries and fringe benefits of school business officials with salaries paid other administrators and classroom teachers. Data were drawn from a stratified sample of school systems that varied by size, region, and per pupil expenditure. (MLF)

A report "Some Popular Assertions about School Administration: Are They Myths or Realities?" by the Educational Research Service, disproves the following assertions: that there are too many administrators; that the number is growing rapidly; and that increasing amounts of school budgets are going to administration. (MLF)