FBI raids home and offices of major Los Angeles school district superintendent

Federal officers conducted a hunt Wednesday related to the superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), national officials told Fox News Digital.

Investigators reportedly targeted Alberto Carvalho’s location successful San Pedro and the schoolhouse district’s downtown headquarters, LAUSD said. FBI agents besides raided a Miami spot linked to the schoolhouse executive, according to Fox 11 Los Angeles.

Ciaran McEvoy, a spokesperson for the U.S. attorney’s bureau for the Central District of California, confirmed that hunt warrants were judicially approved but declined to supply further details connected the quality of the investigation, noting that the warrants stay nether seal.

Carvalho has led LAUSD, the nation’s second-largest schoolhouse system, since aboriginal 2022. He was besides precocious unanimously reappointed to the presumption successful September 2025.  

Superintendent Alberto Carvalho speaks during an lawsuit astatine the LAUSD office successful downtown Los Angeles connected October 30, 2025. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

LAUSD released a connection saying the territory is afloat cooperating with national officials.

"We person been informed of instrumentality enforcement enactment astatine Los Angeles Unified School District office and astatine the location of the Superintendent," it said. "The District is cooperating with the investigation."

The location of Alberto Carvalho, the superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District, is located successful San Pedro, Calif.  (KTTV)

Early Wednesday morning, unit members astatine the LAUSD office were reportedly evacuated arsenic national agents arrived to behaviour the search, Fox 11 said.  

Footage captured aggregate investigators, appearing to beryllium FBI agents, going successful and retired of Carvalho’s location carrying assorted items, including a tiny suitcase and respective cardboard boxes.  

Additionally, FBI Miami told the section outlet that a location successful Southwest Ranches linked to Carvalho was besides searched. The spot has since been cleared, the presumption reported.

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Federal officials look to transportation cardboard extracurricular a location successful California. (KTTV)

Carvalho, who came to the U.S. arsenic an undocumented immigrant, is simply a progressive pedagogue who has spoken publically astir protecting students from imaginable Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) actions astatine schools.

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Superintendent Alberto Carvalho speaks during an lawsuit astatine the LAUSD office successful downtown Los Angeles connected October 30, 2025. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Before moving to California, helium spent 14 years starring Miami‑Dade County Public Schools, the nation’s fourth‑largest schoolhouse district. 

The location of Alberto Carvalho, the superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District, is located successful San Pedro, Calif.  (KTTV)

During his tenure, Carvalho faced scrutiny implicit a imaginable struggle of interest. In 2020, helium helped unafraid a $1.57 cardinal donation from a institution that had a pending declaration with the district, the Miami Herald reported. 

The funds reportedly went to an acquisition nonprofit helium founded, and the company’s online learning program, which was yet plagued with problems, was rapidly scrapped.

FBI agents look to beryllium serving a hunt warrant astatine a San Pedro location linked to Alberto Carvalho. (KTTV)

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In June 2021, the school’s inspector wide determined that the donation, intended to payment teachers, did not interruption immoderate policies but created the "appearance of impropriety," the outlet said. The instauration was subsequently urged to instrumentality the funds, which reportedly had been distributed to teachers arsenic $100 acquisition certificates.

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