In its statement released early Monday, the Board acknowledged it received a letter of resignation from Carvalho. The resignation was effective as of Sunday.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Board remains steadfast in its commitment to ensuring stability, continuity, and continued progress through strong leadership. Our focus remains unchanged: providing every student with a high-quality education, supporting our dedicated workforce, and maintaining the trust of the communities we serve,\u201d it said in the statement.<\/p>\n
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It said that Andr\u00e9s Chait, who has been acting superintendent, will remain in that position until a permanent decision is made.<\/p>\n
Authorities have not provided details of the nature of the investigation involving the district, which serves more than 500,000 students, nor have they accused Carvalho of any crimes.<\/p>\n
The FBI also searched a third location near Miami. The Miami Herald reported the Florida property belonged to Debra Kerr, who previously worked with AllHere, an education technology company that had a contract with Los Angeles schools before it collapsed and its leader was indicted for fraud.<\/p>\n
In 2024, Carvalho heavily touted a deal with AllHere for an AI chatbot named \u201cEd\u201d designed to help students. But about three months after unveiling the technology and paying the company $3 million, the district dropped its dealings with AllHere, which collapsed into bankruptcy. Months later, founder Joanna Smith-Griffin was charged with securities and wire fraud, along with identity theft.<\/p>\n
At the time, Carvalho denied personal involvement in the selection of AllHere, according to the Los Angeles Times.<\/p>\n
\u201cMr. Carvalho respects the rule of law and the investigative process and has always acted in the best interests of students and within the bounds of the law,\u201d a statement provided by Holland & Knight, the law firm representing him, had said. \u201cWhile the government\u2019s investigation remains ongoing, no evidence has been presented by prosecutors supporting any allegation that Mr. Carvalho violated federal law.\u201d<\/p>\n
An email seeking comment was sent to the law firm Monday.<\/p>\n
Following the search of school headquarters, LA Unified said it was cooperating with investigators and had no further information.<\/p>\n
Carvalho became superintendent for LA in 2022. He previously led the public schools in Miami.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In its statement released early Monday, the Board acknowledged it received a letter of resignation from Carvalho. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[18,7704,48,52,51,47,50,49,841,1997,17],"class_list":["post-370229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-general-news","tag-indictments","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-school-boards","tag-schools","tag-u-s-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}