At last week’s Revere Public School Committee meeting, James Hill Elementary School Principal Melissa Lomas said she was excited to present to the committee the work that her 3rd grade team has been doing with regards to remote learning. “This…
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RPS Holds Third Community Meeting on Grading System: Community Hears from College Admissions Representatives
In the last installment of a series of Webinar community meetings hosted by Revere High School Principal Dr. John Perella to discuss the possibility of changing how Revere grades its students, the community heard from a panel of college admissions…
Revere Public School Committee’s Ways and Means Subcommittee Discusses Fiscal Report
At the last Revere Public School Committees Ways and Means subcommittee meeting members discussed the first quarter financial report that includes the first three months of the current fiscal year. According to the report presented by RPS Chief Financial Officer…
Sen. Joseph Boncore Blasts Proposed MBTA Service Cuts
MBTA’s Daniel Mueller laid out the T’s plan to cut service on the Blue Line, a move that was immediately publicly rebuked by the Senate Chair of the Transportation Committee, Sen. Joseph Boncore. Mueller said that the T’s ‘Forging Ahead’…
School Committee Briefed on School Engagement, Attendance
In this age of COVID and remote learning Revere Public Schools are putting plans in action to quickly address attendance issues and reach out to students here that are not fully engaged in remote learning before they slip through the…
RTA Raises Concerns Over New Daycare Program at Hill and Lincoln Schools
Revere Public School teachers are going into school buildings three days a week to teach remotely from their classrooms, but a new daycare service offered to Revere families operating out of the Hill and Lincoln Schools is causing some concern.…
EBNHC to Celebrate 50th Anniversary With Virtual Celebration
A half-century ago, the late Dr. James Taylor’s compassionate work with the elderly population on aging issues like hypertension, heart disease and diabetes brought him to East Boston. Dr. Taylor found that many of his patients in Eastie had little…
MWRA’s Covid Resurgence Study Sees Alarming Trend
Not everyone gets tested for COVID-19, but everyone goes to the bathroom, and scientists studying the recent data at the MWRA’s Deer Island’s waste treatment facility in neighboring Winthrop are seeing an alarming trend. In June, the MWRA Board of…
Revere Public Middle School Discusses Change in Grading
During a ZOOM meeting last Tuesday Revere Public School Superintendent Dr. Dianne Kelly and Revere educators Dr. Christina Porter and Dr. Matt Costa discussed an ongoing plan to switch from traditional grading at the middle school level to the more…
RHS Principal Kicks Off New Webinar Meeting Series
Last Thursday, Revere High School Principal Dr. John Perella hosted the first in a series of Webinar community meetings that he said will be held bi-montly going forward. “These meetings going forward will be bi-monthly,” said Perella. “One of the…
MACIR Programs 1,200 ChromeBooks for Revere Public School students
Students from Revere MACIR (Moroccan American Connections in Revere) IT training program spent three days last week inside Revere High School’s Gym programming a shipment of ChromeBooks that were recently purchased by the Revere Public School Department. “We programmed 1,200…
RPS, Neighboring School Districts Launch Pilot Program for In-School COVID Testing
Revere Public School Superintendent Dianne Kelly has signed onto a letter to Mass Health and Human Service Secretary Marylou Sudders outlining a new pilot program Revere is participating in with neighboring school districts to address fear and anxiety in schools…
Kelly Takes Issue with Airflow Testing Assessment at Local School Buildings
Last week, Revere Teachers Association’s (RTA) Gina Garro circulated an email letter outlining recent airflow testing results at Revere Public School (RPS) buildings and the lack of urgency by school administrators to address ongoing concerns the RTA has over adequate…
Suffolk Downs Redevelopment Approved by Boston’s BPDA Board
After a seven hour long marathon Boston Planning and Development Agency (BPDA) board meeting and housing advocates calling for the BPDA to delay the vote, the board unanimously approved HYM Development’s project to transform the historic 161-acre Suffolk Downs site…
Equity Work at RHS Highlighted at School Committee Meeting
For the past several years Revere High School has been working towards creating a more ‘equitable’ environment for all students regardless of race, religion, background or economic status. At last week’s School Committee meeting, the panel of educators working to…
Superintendent Kelly Responds to RTA’s Concerns of Air Quality in School Buildings
This week the Revere Teachers Association (RTA) sent a letter to Revere Public School Superintendent Dr. Dianne Kelly and Mayor Brian Arrigo highlighting concerns from the district’s own ventilation report completed by AMERESCO. According to the RTA the report demonstrates…
Naira Almonte, 2018 RHS Grad and Daughter of Revere Community Activist, Dies Tragically
Naira Almonte, the daughter of Maria Ureña, a well known community volunteer, advocate and Parent Lead Organizer at Women Encouraging Empowerment (WEE) in Revere died tragically on September 7. Almonte, a 2018 Revere High School graduate, recently moved to Providence…
EBNHC Announces Greg Wilmot as New SVP, COO
Last week the East Boston Neighborhood Health Center (EBNHC) announced that Greg Wilmot has been promoted to the role of senior vice president (SVP) and chief operating officer (COO). Wilmot most recently served as vice president and executive director of…
MACIR Makes and Donates 12,000 Masks to Revere Public Schools
When the COVID-19 Pandemic hit Revere, MACIR (Moroccan American Connections in Revere) switched gears from an organization that helps integrate the growing Moroccan American population in the city of Revere to becoming one of the leading producers of masks and…
Revere School Committee Amends School’s Face Mask Policy
At last week’s Revere School Committee meeting School Committee, member Stacey Rizzo called for an amendment to Revere Public School’s face mask and face covering policy that was recently adopted. “After some new information and speaking to people in the…
