Chancellor Richard Carranza doesn’t do well getting kids to learn, but he sure knows how to please the adults running the schools — as the off-the-charts pay hikes The Post spotlighted last week show.

The salary bumps are as high as 35 percent for some top Department of Education officials, pushing at least 36 execs over the $200,000 mark, as Susan Edelman reported. And that doesn’t count fringe benefits worth more than $100,000 each.

“It’s a picture of finances gone wild,” says Eric Nadelstern, a deputy chancellor under Mayor Mike Bloomberg. “If you look at the cumulative increases and think about what those dollars could do in schools for the benefit of children, it’s scandalous.”

Carranza’s first deputy chancellor, Cheryl Watson-Harris, will see her pay balloon to $241,102 — a 23 percent spike — following her promotion from senior field support director. That’s $6,000 more than Carranza’s predecessor, Carmen Fariña, was making when she quit last year.

Hydra Mendoza, another deputy chancellor, is getting $231,699, a 35 percent boost over the $171,649 pay she got as a deputy chief of staff for San Francisco’s mayor. Several other top officials are getting hefty hikes, too.

It almost seems like spreading the wealth (on your dime) is the main goal for Carranza: Last year, he created a new layer of his bureaucracy, adding nine executive positions, with salaries of $190,000 each. This fall, those salaries rise to $209,476, a 10 percent jump.

Then again, maybe he’s just taking cues from his boss, Mayor de Blasio: Recall the mind-blowing $800 million Hizzoner wasted on his Renewal program, with much of that going to “consultants”? Hizzoner pulled the plug on the program this year, after it became impossible to hide its dismal results.

Meanwhile, the majority of the city’s third- through eighth-graders yet again flunked the (watered down) state tests last year.

“I don’t know how you continue to reward people who individually and collectively have not been successful,” says Nadelstern.

Of course, when the main goal is to please the adults — and put kids last — it’s totally understandable.