CASBO UPDATED SET ANSWERS AND QUESTIONS
SET A+
✔✔How should a district/LEA best monitor a charter? - ✔✔Identify at least one staff
member as the contact person for the charter, visit charter at least annually, ensure
compliance with all reports required of charter school by law, and other mandatory
reporting requirements, monitor fiscal condition
✔✔Are districts/LEAs liable for debts and liabilities of charters? - ✔✔Districts are NOT
liable for debts and liabilities of charter
✔✔True or False - Due process may be filed within 3 years for Special Education? -
✔✔False - Due process must be filed within 2 years (not 3 years)
✔✔Contracts must be awarded to the highest quality bidder, true or false? - ✔✔False -
contracts must be awarded to lowest bidder
✔✔Is the warehouse and purchasing department connected together? - ✔✔NO.
Purchasing and receiving (Warehouse) need to be separate, as this supports internal
controls and the separation of duties
✔✔Is running a system diagnostic an example of cyber security? - ✔✔No. System
diagnostic is not cyber security
✔✔What data does CALPADS monitor? - ✔✔CALPADS - includes all student data:
student demographics, course data, discipline, assessments, staff assignments, and
data for state/federal reporting
✔✔How is lottery funding calculated? - ✔✔Using the prior year's ADA. It has nothing to
do with CALPADS
✔✔A trailer bill provides... - ✔✔Additional details, requirements, technical amendments,
and the process that puts into law how it works.
, ✔✔What should be used first? Unrestricted One Time Funding or Restricted One Time
Funding? - ✔✔Restricted One Time. You should always use unrestricted ongoing
funding last.
✔✔What does CALPADS stand for? - ✔✔California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement
Data System
✔✔What is not included in the LCFF? - ✔✔Federal funds, Special Education, and child
care/preschool
✔✔A trailer bill can also be called an? - ✔✔Omnibus
✔✔What are the key components of the dashboard? - ✔✔Chronic absenteeism,
academic performance, grad rates, EL indicator, college and career
✔✔How long are districts required to prepare a budget and MYP? - ✔✔For the current
year and 2 subsequent years
✔✔Brown Act - what constitutes a meeting? - ✔✔Any gathering of a majority of
members to hear or discuss any item of business or potential business
✔✔Role of the personnel commission? - ✔✔Competitive examination, ensures equity
for classified employees, conducts appeal hearings
✔✔Public contracts are required to be competitively bid if they are more than... -
✔✔$15,000
✔✔A school district must competitively bid on any contract more than... - ✔✔$50,000
✔✔What does FAPE stand for? - ✔✔Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE)
✔✔5 steps to risk management are - ✔✔1. Identify risks 2. Analyze risks 3.
Control/mitigate 4. Finance support 5. Administration/Leadership
✔✔The bid limit for equipment, materials, and supplies, non-construction services,
repairs and maintenance that are not public projects is... - ✔✔$90,200
✔✔ CASBO EXAM California Association of School Business Officials.
CASBO EXAM California Association of School Business Officials. - ✔✔CASBO EXAM
California Association of School Business Officials.
SET A+
✔✔How should a district/LEA best monitor a charter? - ✔✔Identify at least one staff
member as the contact person for the charter, visit charter at least annually, ensure
compliance with all reports required of charter school by law, and other mandatory
reporting requirements, monitor fiscal condition
✔✔Are districts/LEAs liable for debts and liabilities of charters? - ✔✔Districts are NOT
liable for debts and liabilities of charter
✔✔True or False - Due process may be filed within 3 years for Special Education? -
✔✔False - Due process must be filed within 2 years (not 3 years)
✔✔Contracts must be awarded to the highest quality bidder, true or false? - ✔✔False -
contracts must be awarded to lowest bidder
✔✔Is the warehouse and purchasing department connected together? - ✔✔NO.
Purchasing and receiving (Warehouse) need to be separate, as this supports internal
controls and the separation of duties
✔✔Is running a system diagnostic an example of cyber security? - ✔✔No. System
diagnostic is not cyber security
✔✔What data does CALPADS monitor? - ✔✔CALPADS - includes all student data:
student demographics, course data, discipline, assessments, staff assignments, and
data for state/federal reporting
✔✔How is lottery funding calculated? - ✔✔Using the prior year's ADA. It has nothing to
do with CALPADS
✔✔A trailer bill provides... - ✔✔Additional details, requirements, technical amendments,
and the process that puts into law how it works.
, ✔✔What should be used first? Unrestricted One Time Funding or Restricted One Time
Funding? - ✔✔Restricted One Time. You should always use unrestricted ongoing
funding last.
✔✔What does CALPADS stand for? - ✔✔California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement
Data System
✔✔What is not included in the LCFF? - ✔✔Federal funds, Special Education, and child
care/preschool
✔✔A trailer bill can also be called an? - ✔✔Omnibus
✔✔What are the key components of the dashboard? - ✔✔Chronic absenteeism,
academic performance, grad rates, EL indicator, college and career
✔✔How long are districts required to prepare a budget and MYP? - ✔✔For the current
year and 2 subsequent years
✔✔Brown Act - what constitutes a meeting? - ✔✔Any gathering of a majority of
members to hear or discuss any item of business or potential business
✔✔Role of the personnel commission? - ✔✔Competitive examination, ensures equity
for classified employees, conducts appeal hearings
✔✔Public contracts are required to be competitively bid if they are more than... -
✔✔$15,000
✔✔A school district must competitively bid on any contract more than... - ✔✔$50,000
✔✔What does FAPE stand for? - ✔✔Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE)
✔✔5 steps to risk management are - ✔✔1. Identify risks 2. Analyze risks 3.
Control/mitigate 4. Finance support 5. Administration/Leadership
✔✔The bid limit for equipment, materials, and supplies, non-construction services,
repairs and maintenance that are not public projects is... - ✔✔$90,200
✔✔ CASBO EXAM California Association of School Business Officials.
CASBO EXAM California Association of School Business Officials. - ✔✔CASBO EXAM
California Association of School Business Officials.
