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The provincial government has announced a $77.7-million investing to fund two schools within the Halton Catholic District School Board and one in the Halton District School Board. Premier Doug Ford, Minster of Education Stephen Lecce and Milton MPP Parm Gill made the announcement at Bishop Reding High School on Wednesday, July 30.

Milton Councillor Sameera Ali and Halton Catholic District School Board Trustee Patrick Murphy discuss the issues facing Francis Xavier High School (formally known as Jean Vanier) in the upcoming school year. Councillor Ali is disappointed the funding announcement, for two new Catholic schools, didn't come sooner.

The former Jean Vanier High School has been renamed Saint Francis Xavier Secondary School. The Halton Catholic District School Board Milton trustee Patrick Murphy talks about the next steps.

Bishop Reding Catholic Secondary School is getting a much needed facelift. Milton trustee with the Halton Catholic District School Board Patrick Murphy talks about the four phases of construction and what will be ready by September 2020.

The Halton Catholic District School Board have voted on two names to be the possible replacement for the former Jean Vanier High School in Milton. It has been sent to the bishop at the Roman Catholic Diocese of Hamilton for review. The decided name will be brought before the board of trustees at their next meeting on June 16.

The Halton Catholic District School Board is promising students, of the former Jean Vanier High School in Milton, that they will have a new name by the time they go back in September. The school board decided to change its name after allegations of sexual misconduct against the late Jean Vanier were released in Feb. 2020. The school board has formed a naming committee to help decide what the school's new name should be.

The Halton Catholic District School Board has decided to rename a local high school after an investigation revealed its namesake was allegedly involved in sexual assaults. Jean Vanier, who died in 2019, was the co-founder of L'Arche International, an organization that helps people with developmental disabilities. It was this very organization that conducted the investigation. The full report can be found here.

Meantime, a policy committee with the school board is looking to change a naming policy in what they say is a way to make sure something like this doesn't happen again. We spoke with the vice-chair and Milton board trustee Marvin Duarte and a former student, Angelina Viliani.