At the Dec. 8 School Committee meeting, school administrators responded to a 74-page organizational review of the Fall River Public School district that claims the school system’s stumbles have resulted in clumsy departmental coordination, but say that many of the report’s recommendations have already been implemented. 

Superintendent Tracy Curley said, “The purpose of the review was really to modernize foundational systems to support every school, every department in the district.”

She added that specific goals of the study sought to “modernize” operational functions while reducing delay or a duplication of resources and efforts. 

“We know that the district has grown in size and complexity over time,” Curley said, “and there are certainly more compliance expectations than ever before, but our systems generally haven’t kept pace. … If we experience inconsistencies across departments, it really puts us at risk.”

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