PBI Quiz: LAUSD: How Things Work - Pat Brown Institute for Public Affairs

1. The Los Angeles City Charter provides the City of Los Angeles with authority over the LAUSD for which of the following?

Running school board elections

Approval of the LAUSD budget

Approval of charter schools

Oversight of curricula

2. The LAUSD serves approximately how many students?

350,000

570,000

650,000

820,000

3. Which of the following is true of the LAUSD?

It is the largest employer in Los Angeles County.

It operates more buses than the LA County Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

Its boundaries are smaller than the city of Los Angeles.

It is the largest public school district in the nation with an elected board of education.

4. The LAUSD Board of Education consists of how many districts?

5. The LAUSD Superintendent Alberto M. Carvalho previously served in which of the following roles:

Deputy Mayor of Los Angeles

LAUSD Deputy Superintendent

Superintendent of Miami-Dade County Public Schools

Superintendent of Stockton Unified School District

LAUSD: