In a lawsuit filed Thursday that includes salacious details about investigations into Chicago Public Schools principals, a longtime school district investigator is alleging she was fired as she delved into politically and racially charged cases and refused to change reports, despite pressure from high-level officials.

In her lawsuit, Kelly Tarrant says that on June 17, she was going to interview a Local School Council member who works in an alderperson’s office and is accused of wrongdoing. Instead, she was called into a teleconference with her CPS law department boss and told she was being suspended due to a complaint of discrimination and “other serious misconduct.”

A few days after that meeting, she was given a severance agreement, which she alleged in a press conference Thursday, was

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