DISTRICT BODY
This elected body appoints the LAUSD Superintendent.
What is the LAUSD Board of Education?
A key responsibility of the Board beyond setting policy.
What is approving the district budget?
This initiative focuses on improving outcomes for Black students.
What is the Black Student Achievement Plan?
Interest in this service rose sharply in 2024–25 as more families reported barriers related to cost.
What is providing free home internet for students?
LAUSD’s recent four-year graduation rate is about this percent
What is 87 percent?
The number of students enrolled by the district.
What is half of million students?
Schools ranked in the highest SENI categories often receive additional funding but still struggle with this staffing challenge.
What are persistent vacancies or staffing shortages?
SENI is designed to do this with district resources.
What is allocate resources based on student need?
Zone of Choice allows families to choose among these.
What are multiple schools within a local zone?
Leaders track graduation AND college-going rates to measure this.
What is graduation rates / A–G completion / math or literacy proficiency?
Half of this group of school support staff are also parents of LAUSD children.
What are classfied employees?
LAUSD’s primary state funding formula that provides base, supplemental, and concentration grants.
What is the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF)?
BSAP funding increased by reallocating money from this department.
What is the LA School Police Department?
According to GPSN 2025 Family Poll More than half of families say they do not feel represented “a great deal” in this type of district decision-making.
What are district-level policy or budget decisions?
Improving graduation alone may still leave students lacking this.
What is postsecondary readiness?
This is the maximum number of consecutive terms an LAUSD Board member may serve under current term-limit rules.
What are three terms?
Declining enrollment creates pressure because this state funding mechanism is still tied to student counts.
What is Average Daily Attendance (ADA)?
The leadership rationale behind BSAP addresses this issue.
What are systemic racial achievement gaps?
Beyond choice, ZOC can encourage this among schools.
What is improvement through competition and innovation?
Research links Zone of Choice to increases in this outcome.
What is college enrollment?
This group of LAUSD workers is disproportionately affected by the lack of employer-provided healthcare benefits.
Who are classified, hourly, and support staff?
Despite higher per-pupil funding, schools may not see improved student experiences when funds go unspent due to this issue.
What are unused carryover funds or limited spending flexibility?
Name one non-academic indicator used in SENI.
What is neighborhood asthma rates / community violence / chronic absenteeism?
In 2025 Families ranked this specific mental health service as the most helpful support schools could provide during the school day.
What is counseling or therapy provided by mental health professionals during school hours?
A leadership strategy that supports both graduation and college enrollment.
What is expanded counseling, advising, and academic pathways?