Carvalho probe looms over LAUSD meeting as labor talks, charter renewal demand attention
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Los Angeles school officials took action on major issues Tuesday during their first public board meeting after an FBI raid of the home and office of Supt.Alberto Carvalho: denying the renewal of one of the nation’s better-known charter schools, approving four significant union contracts and passing a resolution that seeks to end business with vendors who have ties with federal immigration enforcement.The meeting took place as Carvalho issued his first statement since the raid, asserting his innocence and expressing hopes to return to work as soon as possible.There was no public discussion related to Carvalho, whom the board placed on paid leave Feb.
27, two days after FBI raids linked to an investigation of a failed artificial intelligence project propelled him and the school district into the national education spotlight and threw the district into a leadership crisis.California Carvalho, currently on paid leave, had his home and office raided as part of an investigation linked to AllHere, the company behind a failed multimillion-dollar LAUSD chatbot initiative.Federal investigators have not charged Carvalho with wrongdoing, although sources have confirmed he is one target of their investigation into Boston-based AllHere, the now-bankrupt startup behind the failed initiative.
Acting Supt.Andres Chait, a veteran district administrator, presided over his first public meeting but rarely spoke.In the most heated issue of the day, the board rejected the charter renewal for Locke High, operated by Green Dot Public Schools.The denial, if not overturned at the county level, means the school will have to shut down at the end of the school year.The board vote was 4 to 3 in favor of denial — in line with the recommendation from district staff, but a disappointment to well more than 100 Green Dot backers who cheered on speakers in support of the school.
Locke High, located in Watts, ...