Overview
- The school board voted unanimously Wednesday to make Andres Chait the permanent superintendent, three days after Alberto Carvalho resigned from the post.
- Chait is a longtime LAUSD insider who began as a kindergarten teacher and rose through roles including principal, regional superintendent and chief of school operations.
- Federal investigators continue to review Carvalho’s actions tied to a failed contract with AI vendor AllHere, but Carvalho has not been charged and he denies wrongdoing.
- The board also approved a $20.6 billion spending plan and a four-year strategic plan that use district reserves to cover a projected revenue shortfall and include hundreds of layoffs next year.
- Union leaders praised Chait for helping avert a strike, though some said they wanted a formal search; the budget choices raise the risk of deeper cuts to staff and services if reserves run out in the next two to three years.