MCIEA Participation

Revere is a founding district of the Massachusetts Consortium for Innovative Education Assessment.
Since its founding, MCIEA has been governed through collaboration between local union presidents and district superintendents from each member system.

We continue to work together to build an effective alternative to MCAS testing and the top-down school accountability dating back to the time of No Child Left Behind. Because the consortium is believes that schools and students are more than test scores, we train our teachers to develop performance assessments which authentically measure student knowledge and skills within the classroom. We also use staff and student surveys and administrative data to generate a school quality dashboard, leading to a holistic view of a school’s strengths and weaknesses across multiple domains.

We encourage you to explore the School Quality Dashboard for any of Revere’s schools. Our school improvement councils use this information to set our improvement goals based on what we think schools should be.

For more information visit mciea.org or contact RTA’s appointee to the governing board, Erik Fearing, past association president.

Revere Educators Urge Council to Fund School Site Study

The Revere Teachers Association issues the following statement regarding the Revere City Council meeting scheduled for April 24.

The Revere Teachers Association urges the Revere City Council to approve without reservation spending the money necessary to assess the cost and viability of building a new high school at the site of the current Revere High School.

The council has an obligation to the community to keep a high-school project moving forward. Conducting a feasibility study of building a new school at the existing Revere High site is imperative for the city to still be eligible for funding from the Massachusetts School Building Authority. Securing significant funding from the state to address this urgent municipal need is the most prudent way to pay for the project.

But make no mistake: A new high school is necessary regardless of how it gets paid for. Students are now forced to learn in inadequate conditions. The city is risking the future of students should our high school lose state accreditation because of its decrepit condition.

Furthermore, the construction of a new high school must be viewed as part of a larger plan to meet the needs of students now and into the future. Overcrowding is a problem in our other schools. Staffing and programs will need to keep pace with our students’ needs.

In deciding that the Wonderland site was not suitable to use for a new Revere High School, councilors indicated that they believe the site may have better strategic uses. The Revere Teachers Association expects the City Council to apply the same type of long-term strategic thinking when it comes to supporting public education in our city.

MTA Annual Meeting

If you wish to represent RTA at the state Annual Meeting of Delegates in Springfield April 28 & 29, please complete this form by Monday March 20.

Annual Meeting Self Nomination Form