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Fire‑safety rules and cost questions limit plans for extra classrooms at Garfield Middle School
Summary
Committee members raised a request to convert open areas at Garfield Middle School into additional classrooms; facilities staff and the fire department flagged evacuation and safety constraints and cited the cost of demountable walls.
Members of the Revere Public Schools Ways and Means subcommittee discussed a request to convert open floor areas at Garfield Middle School into additional classrooms after a committee member who volunteers there described recurring crowding and classroom sharing.
A district facilities staff member explained that the building’s second floor was designed and reserved as overflow evacuation space by the fire department and therefore cannot be fully enclosed. The staff member said the fire…
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