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The school board that governs 19 francophone schools in Edmonton and across northern Alberta is restructuring after several years of friction.

Greater North Central Francophone Education — Conseil scolaire Centre-Nord in French — will ask voters to elect three public and three Catholic school trustees next October, board chair Nathalie Lachance said.

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It’s a significant change from the board’s current method of taking a religious census of voters, then designating a representative number of trustees as Catholic or public. Currently, five of the board’s trustees are Catholic and two are public.

“We did it firmly believing we were making the right decision for the better good of the francophone community in the future,” Lachance said.

A motion to approve the change passed unanimously at the school board’s February meeting and has been approved by Education Minister David Eggen, his press secretary said.