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Police cleared parents out of an English Montreal School Board meeting Thursday night as discontent with the potential cohabitation deal and possible school transfers to Commission scolaire de la Pointe-de-l’Île grew heated.

The EMSB voted in favour of the cohabitation deal at the meeting. The deal will be presented to the Ministry of Education and the Commission scolaire de la Pointe-de-l’Île in an effort to avoid losing three EMSB schools to the French school board.

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Gerald McShane, General Vanier and John Paul I schools are set to be transferred to the CSPI to solve overcrowding issues in its east-end schools.

The meeting grew so intense that police arrived during question period and asked parents to leave.It was unclear who called them, but some believed it was EMSB vice-chair Joe Ortona, who adjourned the meeting during the kerfuffle. Chair Angela Mancini had left the room to address the situation with police when the meeting was adjourned.