“We are now working in an educational environment that is driven by choice. Gimenez (L) and Miami-Dade County Public Schools Superintendent Alberto Carvalho (R) visit a K-8 school on August 24, 2018. The “privatization” of the district, and its hefty payouts to expand school security, have garnered national scrutiny for years over concerns that they’ve siphoned funds from existing, traditional schools. In his 13 year tenure as superintendent, he’s pushed for the expansion of charter and magnet schools throughout Miami and encouraged families to use publicly funded vouchers to attend private schools. Originally on track to become a doctor, he accepted a teaching job in his early 20s and “the bug infected me,” he told the 74. Carvalho has spent his entire career in the Miami-Dade school system, starting as a high school science teacher in the 1980s. Here are four things to know about the man set to head up the nation’s second largest district: 1. His aggressive approach to school reform may be welcome in Los Angeles, a system struggling with declining enrollments, student mental health and overall learning loss. Alberto Carvalho (Sergi Alexander / Getty Images)Īlberto Carvalho, Miami-Dade’s long-time, charismatic and controversial schools chief, was selected Thursday by the Los Angeles Unified school board as its next superintendent.Īn advocate of school choice, nontraditional schools and known champion of undocumented student rights, Carvalho, 57, has run Miami’s schools for more than a decade.Ĭarvalho’s sometimes unusual reform tactics have been credited for Miami-Dade’s rising high school graduation rate, now about 89 percent - about 30 percent higher than rates the year prior to his tenure.
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