Chancellor Melissa Aviles-Ramos has some nerve seeking yet more cash for NYC schools with a budget already exceeding $41B

In testament to the political power of the United Federation of Teachers, spending on the public schools now accounts for more than a third of New York City’s budget — and the woman nominally in charge of the Department of Education, Chancellor Melissa Aviles-Ramos, just told the City Council she needs even more.

The DOE’s already penciled in for $41.2 billion in the coming year, up more than $800 million from the year before.

But Aviles-Ramos says that’s not enough to cover this year’s bill (around $400 million) for implementing the class-size-reduction law (which the UFT got its Albany pawns to impose), nor for executing Gov. Kathy Hochul’s ban on cellphones in class.

God forbid the DOE find the class-size money somewhere else in its budget — or that it explain convincingly why the ban need cost a dime.

The agency’s motto might was well be: “No cheese gets moved without more cash for the ‘stakeholders.’”

Prime among them, the UFT, which has Albany steadily chipping away at the mayoral-control law — which only became law after then-Mayor Mike Bloomberg bribed the union with massive pay hikes two decades ago.

Truancy is up, enrollment is down, test scores have declined — and the only answer given is “give us more.”

No wonder parents are eager to get their kids out of the system and into charter schools or other districts.

“Public servant” is supposed to mean “serving the public,” but the entire city Department of Education seems to think it means “served by the public.”

Some day, some way, a very rude awakening is ahead.