LAUSD Superintendent Alberto Carvalho resigns amid FBI investigation

Nearly 4 months aft national agents raided his location and territory headquarters, Superintendent Alberto Carvalho announced his resignation arsenic the caput of the Los Angeles Unified School District connected Sunday.

LAUSD unit said they had received a missive of resignation and would contented a connection later.

In February, the FBI served a bid of hunt warrants at Carvalho's location and the Los Angeles Unified School District's headquarters. Sources told CBS News that the FBI besides raided a Florida residence linked to Carvalho. The crushed for the warrants is chartless aft the FBI confirmed that the underlying affidavit remained nether seal.

Law enforcement sources told CBS News that the investigations successful some states are straight related to Carvalho. It's not wide what, if any, wrongdoing Carvalho is accused of. The FBI and the U.S. Attorney's Office would not remark connected the probe successful February, which is modular until imaginable charges are filed.   

Prior to joining LAUSD successful 2022, Carvalho served arsenic superintendent of Miami-Dade County Public Schools.

A root with nonstop cognition of the substance said the probe predates the Trump medication and is simply a probe into allegations that Carvalho whitethorn person received kickbacks from a concern portion still superintendent of the Miami schoolhouse district. The root added that the probe is not straight tied to the LAUSD oregon Carvalho's enactment astatine the district, and that determination is nary known culpability oregon transportation to LAUSD. 

More than a week aft the hunt warrants were executed, attorneys representing Carvalho issued a connection denying immoderate wrongdoing and stating that the superintendent "has ever acted successful the champion interests of students and wrong the bounds of the law."  

"Mr. Carvalho remains assured that the grounds volition yet show that helium acted appropriately and successful the champion interests of students," the connection said. "We anticipation the School Board reinstates him promptly to his presumption arsenic Superintendent."

Carvalho, who started a four-year, $1.7 cardinal woody earlier this year, has been connected paid administrative permission for the past 4 months.

The LAUSD is the nation's second-largest nationalist schoolhouse district.