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Outfit selection is a daily adventure for the 270 students at Ecole Joseph-Moreau.

Will they fry or freeze in their windowless classroom, as an ancient boiler churns heat through the patchwork maze of building additions?

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It was with delight, then, that families and staff learned this month the Catholic junior high will be the first francophone school in Edmonton to move into a brand-new building — hopefully by September 2020.

“It’ll be huge for the students,” Pierre Asselin, president of the school council and parent of three kids, said Thursday. “What it will allow is for us not to lose our students to competitive schools.”

A replacement for Joseph-Moreau is one of six major Edmonton school construction projects the provincial government has announced it will fund during the next four years.

The announcement was a coup for the Greater North Central francophone Education Region (Conseil scolaire Centre-Nord), which often feels like a poor cousin to the much larger public and Catholic school systems when school construction dollars are divvied up.