1.   Public agencies get most of their funding from legislatures, city councils, and elected boards.

2.   -- Legislation proposed by Assemblywoman Paula Boland, R-Granada Hills, that would bar elected boards from filing suit to overturn voter-approved initiatives.

3.   All but three of those schools are in districts in which Crew or his predecessor had already removed the elected boards.

4.   But he added that doing away with the elected board is not the answer.

5.   City residents will vote in five years on whether to replace the new, appointed board with another elected board.

6.   House Minority Leader Jim Garner, a Coffeyville Democrat, also said he was reluctant to eliminate an elected board.

7.   In Boston, an elected board was abolished and Mayor Thomas Menino now appoints the superintendent.

8.   In California, tax policy is set by a five-member elected board.

9.   In the case of the Cotton Exchange, the decision to hire Morgan was one of the first acts of a newly elected board.

10.   Newly elected LAUSD board President Caprice Young said the district welcomes the help.