Trever’s APS spending cartoon another masterpiece

The Albuquerque Journal’s John Trever has a way of highlighting important issues with a simple cartoon. He does it once again with the following cartoon from Sunday’s paper. We offered our own analysis here showing that if you simply divide the District’s proposed $2.3 billion budget by the expected student population of 65,000 (that is the maximum expected) you get a whopping $35,384 per-pupil.

Needless to say, results haven’t kept pace with spending and those poor outcomes further drive students out of the District which (perversely) due to the State’s K-12 funding formula and state budget growth) leads to EVEN MORE funding for APS per-pupil.