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The Quebec government has identified three schools in the east end of the island that it intends to take away from the English Montreal School Board to resolve an overcrowding problem at a French-language board.

In a letter that arrived at the EMSB on Thursday, Education Minister Jean-François Roberge says his government will order the transfer of General Vanier elementary school and John Paul I junior high school in St-Léonard and Gerald McShane elementary school in Montreal-North to the Commission scolaire de la Pointe-de-l’Île.

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“Considering our current orientations, we count on you to rapidly inform the parents as well as the personnel of the schools concerned,” Roberge says in the letter, a copy of which was obtained by the Montreal Gazette.

The letter is addressed to EMSB chairperson Angela Mancini, who did not respond to messages on Thursday.

A message posted late in the day on the EMSB’s website said Mancini plans to comment on the matter on Friday. As well, it says the board’s elected commissioners will hold a special meeting on the school transfers at its headquarters on Fielding Ave. on Monday evening.