Revere Ways and Means panel recommends cuts to some coaching and operations posts, keeps health techs and civics coach

Revere Public Schools' Ways and Means Subcommittee recommended eliminating several central and school-based positions and voted to retain a small group of student-support roles at a meeting the committee held Oct. 11, 2025.

The panel moved to recommend cutting the districtwide restorative-justice coach, the communications director, the grading coach and a set of operations positions (three middle-school operations posts and one high-school operations post). The subcommittee voted to retain four health technicians, an alternative physical-education position that serves students with special needs, and a civics coach. The committee forwarded its recommendations to the full school committee for final action.

Chairman John Kingston, reading a financial overview into the record, said the district entered the process with a roughly $10,000,000 reserve and expected a carryover of about $5,000,000 but warned that a projected 4% salary increase next year will reduce that cushion. "Now I know next year, we're gonna be probably…