1. Measuring "spending per pupil" is a rough measurement. Schools and districts spread out expenditures lots of different ways. And costs can be quite different in different places.

2. Correlating that figure with one specific metric like graduation rate is meaningless. You would have to look at the whole picture to see where funds were actually going. 

3. The relevant questions are whether there are identifiable actions schools can take to improve graduation rates and whether those actions will require additional funding. 

I will vote for M97 and M98, though I have reservations. M98 would help to develop career technical courses and opportunities in high schools. That's an effective action for improving the graduation rate. But M98 would increase the"college in high school" courses which are often educationally fraudulent. 

M97 rebuilds and stabilizes our tax system and directs funds to schools. But schools need more than $$. 

Yet without M97, fiscal crisis hits Oregon schools.