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Los Angeles, CA - August 14: Lenicia B. Weemes Elementary School on Monday, Aug. 14, 2023 in Los Angeles, CA. LAUSD Supt. Alberto Carvalho addresses students, parents, teachers and staff assembled at Lenicia B. Weemes Elementary School on the first day of classes for LAUSD students. (Al Seib / For The Times)

A charismatic educator, a connected consultant and an AI deal that failed L.A. schools

Alberto Carvalho and Debra Kerr’s roots date back to their days together in the Florida education community. Now, both find themselves as central figures in a federal probe into AllHere, the company behind L.A. Unified’s failed AI chatbot project.

SHERMAN OAKS, CALIFORNIA SEPTEMBER 11, 2019-Bob Shontell, stands along s street in Sherman Oaks where security cameras are instslled to read license plates. (Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times)

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Anaheim, Calif., United States - MAGA supporters arrive at Disneyland for a planned gathering Saturday, February 28, 2026. Activist group 805 Patriots was planning an unofficial event dubbed "Disneyland MAGA Invasion," encouraging its members to wear red MAGA hats and "Make Disney Great Again" attire. Carlin Stiehl / For The Times

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Los Angeles, CA - July 31: Councilmember Nithya Raman, right, speaks alongside Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, right, at a news conference to raise awareness for tenant rights and resources ahead of the COVID rent debt repayment deadline on Aug. 1 at City Hall on Monday, July 31, 2023 in Los Angeles, CA. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)

Mayor Karen Bass is dropping Nithya Raman from the AQMD board. The reasons are under wraps

Daughters Andrea (left) and Amanda (right) sit with their father Frank at his famed Palm Parlor bench in Disneyland in 2024.

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LOS ANGELES, CA - FEBRUARY 26, 2026 - Dental student Somkene Okuego works with patient Jimmy Stewart, 83, a Korean War veteran, who receives affordable dental work at the Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry of USC on the USC campus in Los Angeles on February 26, 2026. Stewart has been a patient of Okuego for the past two years. "Everybody may be in the poor house tomorrow," Stewart said about medical cuts from the current administration in Washington. Okuego is about to graduate from USC with a dentistry degree after first earning a gerontology degree. She wants to focus on geriatric dentistry because so many older adults have major dental health problems after years of avoiding care because they can't afford insurance. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times)
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Los Angeles, CA - November 21: A placard before Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan J. Hochman holds a press conference to discuss a case involving two Torrance police officers charged with the 2018 shooting death of 23-year-old Christopher Deandre Mitchell at Hall of Justice on Friday, Nov. 21, 2025 in Los Angeles, CA. (Eric Thayer / Los Angeles Times)

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PALM SPRINGS, CA - APRIL 04: Banners in downtown Palm Springs show support for Canadians. The city is a popular tourist draw for Canadian snowbirds but many are worried about traveling to the United States because of Trump's immigration and border policies. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times)
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Los Angeles, CA - January 27, 2026: A pedestrian walks past the previous location of Sun Packing, a clothing exporter in the Fashion District on Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2026 in Los Angeles, CA. In May 2024, seven men wearing masks and body armor and carrying assault rifles stormed into Sun Packing, a clothing exporter in the Fashion District, and shot dead Eduardo Perez Basurto. Police have charged 12 suspects with planning and carrying out the heist. Two have since turned up dead. (Kayla Bartkowski/ Los Angeles Times)
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LOS ANGELES, CA - JANUARY 28, 2026 - Jose Parra, 39, left, and his mother Rosa Garcia, 58, pack up their belongings after being evicted from their Boyle Heights apartment where they have lived for 30 years. They have until February 5 to pack up and leave. The building is owned by Will Tiao, who is trying to redevelop the location into a six story apartment building. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times)
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MAMMOTH MOUNTAIN, CALIF. JANUARY 15, 2026 -- A skier navigates one of the expert runs off the top of Lincoln Mountain in the Mammoth Mountain ski area on January 15, 2026. Mammoth Mountain, located in the Sierra Nevada mountain range. Mammoth Mountain has a summit over 11,000 feet and averages around 400 inches of annual snowfall. (Christian Pondella / For The Times)
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LOS ANGELES, CA - DECEMBER 9, 2025 - Landlord Nela Petrusan yells at tenant organizers with Los Angeles Tenants Union, outside of frame, from the front door of her apartment at 1430 Wright Street in Los Angeles on December 9, 2025. Petrusan, landlord and owner of the apartments, is being prosecuted by the Los Angeles city attorney over allegations that she has harassed her tenants and that the building is in deplorable condition. (Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times)
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Iva Toguri D'Aquino, Tokyo Rose of the Japanese propaganda "Zero Hour" broadcasts which were beamed to American troops in the Pacific during the war, seems in a pensive mood as she looks through the bars of her cell in Yokohama, Japan, Oct. 28, 1945. Born in Los Angeles, 29 years ago to Japanese parents, she is awaiting trial for treason against the United States. (AP Photo)

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Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson starts a Bible-reading marathon at Angelus Temple in Los Angeles, June 28, 1931. The contest will continue through July 1, with what is said to be the largest Bible in the world being used by contestants. (AP Photo)
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MONTEREY PARK-CA-DECEMBER 9, 2013: Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca faces the media during a news conference in response to an announcement of the F.B.I. arrests of 17 sworn members of the Sheriff's Department in connetion with a federal probe into activities at county jails at the Department Headquarters in Monterey Park on Monday, December 9, 2013. (Christina House / For The Times)

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FILE - In this June 5, 1968, file photo, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy addresses campaign workers moments before being shot in Los Angeles. At his side are his wife, Ethel, and his California campaign manager, Jesse Unruh, speaker of the California Assembly. Prosecutors for the first time are not opposing the release of Sirhan Sirhan. The 77-year-old prisoner on Friday, Aug. 27, 2021, faces his 16th parole hearing for fatally shooting Kennedy in 1968. (AP Photo/Dick Strobel, File)
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Los Angeles, California, July 13, 1981 - HILLSIDE STRANGLER - Angelo Buono, "Hillside Strangler" suspect, smiles as he listens to motion by the deputy district attorney to dismiss murder charges against him. With him is one of his attorneys, Kathy Mader. Photo Credit: R.L. Oliver / Los Angeles Times

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1990-06-22 - 'Holy Terror 'Manson tunnel LAPD crime scene photo. The railroad tunnel in which Ronald Baker was found had spooky graffiti and a dark mystique, the kind of place Valley kids dared each other to walk through at night. People called it the Manson Tunnel-the cult leader and his disciples had lived nearby at the Spahn Movie Ranch-and someone had spray-painted HOLY TERROR over the entrance.
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(Original Caption) Convicted spy Christopher Boyce is led by federal marshals at Burbank airport upon his arrival from Springfield, Massachusetts, for arraignment on charges related to his escape from Lompoc federal prison in January 1980.

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Boster, Mark -- - LOS ANGELES,CA.,JUNE 9, 2009: Veteran LAPD detective Stephanie Lazarus,49, appears at the Criminal Justice Center in Los Angeles for her arraignment on murder charges June 9, 2009. Lazarus is charged with the 1986 murder of Sherri Rasmussen. (Mark Boster/Los Angeles Times)

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Los Angeles, CA - May 29, 1986 : Richard W. Miller (center) with his defense attorney (right) watch as the jury arrives to the Little League Park location as part of the espionage retrial. The park is located at Ohio Ave, and Sepulveda Blvd. May of 1986. ( Al Seib / Los Angeles Times )

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