The state Department of Elementary and Secondary Education is launching a formal investigation into the Fall River School Committee’s attempts to terminate Superintendent Tracy Curley.

The school department had also been subject to an extensive DESE investigation in May 2025, of which no one on the committee claimed to be aware — but Curley should have received a copy of this report.

The School Committee has discussed, in executive session, the possibility of terminating Curley without cause since mid-February. Curley has rebutted with threat of litigation and, at a special School Committee meeting Wednesday, March 11, she resigned effective Friday, March 13.

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