FBI agents served warrants Wednesday at the San Pedro home of Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent Alberto Carvalho, as well as his office at the district’s downtown headquarters.
There was no immediate information on the nature of the investigation.
A spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office confirmed to City News Service that law enforcement officials were serving “a judicially approved search warrant,” but declined to provide any additional details.
There was no immediate response to a request for comment from the LAUSD.
Carvalho has been superintendent of LAUSD — the nation’s second-largest school district — since February 2022. He was re-appointed to the post in September 2025. He previously served as superintendent of Miami-Dade County Public Schools in Florida for 14 years.
According to his district biography, he was named Florida’s 2014 Superintendent of the Year, the 2014 National Superintendent of the Year, the 2016 Magnet Schools of America Superintendent of the Year, the 2016 winner of the Harold W. McGraw Prize in Education, the 2018 National Urban Superintendent of the Year, and the 2019 National Association for Bilingual Education Superintendent of the Year.
Carvalho has openly talked in the past about his impoverished upbringing in Portugal, and how he came to the United States as an undocumented immigrant in the 1980s after graduating high school.