‘Miami Will Always Have A Special Place In My Heart': Alberto Carvalho Leaving Miami-Dade Schools To Become Next L.A. Superintendent

By Ashley Dyer, CBS Miami

December 10, 2021

Miami-Dade County Public Schools Superintendent Alberto Carvalho is leaving South Florida to become the new superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District, he announced Thursday afternoon.

“I am blessed and happy to report that the Los Angeles Unified School System has offered me the position of superintendent,” he announced. “We are now going to enter a phase of contract negotiations.”

Carvalho has led Miami-Dade County Public Schools, the fourth-largest K-12 public school system in the country, since 2008. L.A. Unified is the second largest.

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