Los Angeles School Superintendent and former Miami-Dade County Public Schools chief Alberto Carvalho is being put on paid leave while he is part of a federal investigation.
The move on Friday by the Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education comes two days after the FBI served search warrants at his home and the district’s headquarters.
Authorities have not provided details of the nature of the investigation involving the nation’s second-largest school district, which serves more than 500,000 students.
Andres Chait, the chief of school operations, will take over the helm while Carvalho is on leave, the district said.
The FBI served search warrants at the Los Angeles Unified School District’s headquarters and the home of current L.A. superintendent and former Miami-Dade County Public Schools superintendent Alberto Carvalho. NBC6s Ari Odzer reports
Carvalho became superintendent in 2022. He previously led the public schools in Miami for 14 years.
Earlier this week, NBC6 learned part of the probe seems to be targeting a foundation that raises money to help the neediest kids in Miami.
The Miami-Dade Public Schools Foundation was set up during Carvalho’s tenure in Miami. It was previously called the Foundation for New Education Initiatives.
According to two Miami-Dade School Board members, FBI agents on Wednesday served subpoenas to Miami-Dade County Public Schools, the district’s inspector general and the Foundation for New Education Initiatives.
“Indeed, with respect to apparently what I understand they’re interested in, the inspector general looked at what we had done and concluded there had been no violation or any problem whatsoever,” said its treasurer, Alan Fein.
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