Miami-Dade Public Schools Superintendent Alberto Carvalho reacts during his final meeting at the Miami-Dade County school board administration building on Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2022. On Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2026, the FBI raided his LA office and home. He is now the superintendent of the Los Angeles school district.
David Santiago
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FBI agents on Wednesday searched a residence in the upscale community of Southwest Ranches in Broward County in coordination with FBI searches of the Southern California home and office of Alberto Carvalho, the superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District.
Carvalho was the longtime superintendent of Miami-Dade Public Schools before taking the top L.A. post in 2022.
“We searched a residence in Southwest Ranches today as part of this matter and have since cleared the scene,” Jim Marshall, a spokesman for the FBI-Miami Field Office, told the Miami Herald.
He declined to provide more details.
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Marshall said, however, that FBI agents did not carry out searches of the Miami-Dade County Public Schools headquarters building at 1450 NE Second Ave. or at residential properties listed in Miami-Dade property records as belonging to Carvalho and his wife at 900 Biscayne Blvd. in Miami and at 420 NE 95th St., a home in Miami Shores.
Carvalho could not be immediately reached for comment.
FBI agents served a search warrant on Carvalho’s Los Angeles office and home Wednesday morning but declined to say why he is under investigation, the agency confirmed to the Miami Herald. The warrants are sealed.
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Before his move to L.A. in 2022, Carvalho served as the Miami-Dade school district’s superintendent for 14 years.
Carvalho, who came to the United States as an undocumented immigrant from Portugal when he was 17 years old, has been a vocal critic of the Trump administration’s immigration policies.
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But it’s unclear whether the FBI searches and investigation are related to his critical comments about the administration’s crackdown on immigrants — a purview associated with the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Miami Herald staff writer David J. Neal contributed to this report.
This story was originally published February 25, 2026 at 3:30 PM.