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. The FBI issued a statement confirming the agency “is serving court-authorized warrants at those locations. However, the affidavit in support of the warrants (has) been sealed by the court and we, therefore, have no further comment.”
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. Carvalho has been publicly critical of stepped-up federal immigration enforcement activities near LAUSD campuses.
Last year, a group of LAUSD students and former district Superintendent Austin Beutner filed a lawsuit accusing the district and Carvalho of misusing $76.7 million in Proposition 28 funds dedicated for art and music education.
Passed by California voters in 2022 to address longstanding underfunding of arts and music education, Prop. 28 provides dedicated funding to school districts to hire arts and music teachers and aides at all campuses so that each student benefits from increased arts and music instruction.
In accepting Prop. 28 funds, school districts are required to use the money to increase and not replace funding for existing art and music instruction and to allocate at least 80% of the funds to hire arts teachers and aides to provide music and art instruction, according to the lawsuit, which alleges the district “failed both requirements.”
The district has denied any wrongdoing, saying in a statement when the lawsuit was filed last year that “we continue to follow implementation guidance as provided by the state of California to ensure that we are fully complying with the requirements of Prop. 28.”