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Superintendent Carvalho Turns His Back On LGBTQ+ Students
The Florida transplant ignores a lesson on the LAUSD’s long history of supporting LGBTQ+ students. Will the board hold him accountable?
- LAUSD Resolution
The LAUSD’s new Superintendent must have experienced severe culture shock when he made his move from Florida to California. As a superintendent in Miami, Alberto M. Carvalho was used to operating in an environment where the law makes unions weak. While Florida’s leadership ignored the risks of the COVID-19, the state of California took steps to protect its citizens. The Governor of the “Sunshine States” seeks to increase his presidential prospects by attacking the LGBTQ+ community while the leadership of the LAUSD has long sought to improve its treatment of these students.
At this week’s LAUSD Board Meeting, I used my public comment to remind district leadership of the commitments that they have made to LGBTQ+ students. Instead of listening to learn, Carvalho turned his back part way through the speech and, ignoring the importance of the subject, he carried on a conversation with his…