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Los Angeles Superintendent Alberto Carvalho is on paid administrative depart after an FBI raid on his house and places of work earlier this week.
The Los Angeles Unified faculty board introduced the unanimous resolution Friday afternoon after two prolonged closed-door periods. Chief of College Operations Andres Chait was named performing superintendent, efficient instantly.
Carvalho has led the nation’s second largest faculty district since February 2022. He beforehand served 14 years as superintendent of the Miami-Dade County College District in Florida. Carvalho has been an outspoken defender of undocumented college students and at one level was an unauthorized immigrant himself.
The FBI raided Carvalho’s house and places of work on Wednesday morning.
The FBI has not accused Carvalho of wrongdoing. Sources have informed the Los Angeles Occasions and different media retailers that Carvalho is a goal of an investigation associated to the now-defunct edtech firm AllHere Training, which designed an AI chatbot for the district.
In a press launch, the varsity board mentioned it acted to make sure district management might stay targeted on serving college students. The press launch additionally mentioned the board couldn’t touch upon the investigation.
“At the moment’s motion is geared toward fulfilling our promise to college students and households to offer a wonderful public schooling with out distraction,” Board President Scott Schmerelson mentioned.
Right here’s what we all know up to now:
- Federal officers executed search warrants at Carvalho’s house in Los Angeles’ San Pedro neighborhood Wednesday morning, in addition to his workplace at LAUSD headquarters. The FBI additionally searched a house in Broward County, Florida, in relation to the identical investigation, Miami public radio station WLRN experiences. Public information present that the house belongs to Debra Kerr, a former gross sales consultant for AllHere. The affidavits that again up these search warrants are sealed, the FBI informed native media retailers.
- Beneath Carvalho’s management, Los Angeles Unified College District has ramped up protections for undocumented college students in response to the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration enforcement ways. The district has expanded bus routes and digital education choices, performed its personal patrols round faculty websites, and helped households with authorized help. Carvalho grew up very poor in Portugal and was homeless and undocumented as a younger man. He has mentioned his personal experiences imply he can perceive the concern that many immigrant college students really feel at present.
- The College Superintendents Affiliation named Carvalho their Superintendent of the 12 months in 2014 when he was the top of the Miami faculty district, the nation’s fourth-largest. In 2018, then-New York Metropolis Mayor Invoice DeBlasio named Carvalho chancellor, just for Carvalho to show down the job. He took the highest job in Los Angeles in 2022.
- The Miami district’s inspector normal investigated a nonprofit began by Carvalho for soliciting a donation from an organization that created a failed on-line studying platform. The investigation discovered no ‘precise’ wrongdoing, the Miami Herald reported in 2021, however the inspector normal mentioned the donation created an look of impropriety and needs to be returned.
Editor’s Be aware: Up to date, Feb. 27, 2026. This story has been up to date to mirror that Carvalho was positioned on paid depart and to incorporate extra details about the investigation.
Erica Meltzer is Chalkbeat’s nationwide editor protecting schooling coverage and politics. Contact Erica at emeltzer@chalkbeat.org.
