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THURSDAY JUNE 9, 2016
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THE BIG ONE:
New Westminster Secondary School Grade 8 students join B.C. Education Minister Mike Bernier at their school Tuesday as he announces that funding for the New Westminster Secondary School replacement project has been approved. The new school is expected to open in December 2019. PHOTO CORNELIA NAYLOR
$106 million set for new high school Education Minister Mike Bernier:‘... this is a long time coming’ By Cayley Dobie
cdobie@newwestrecord.ca
For the second time in two decades, the provincial government has approved funding for a New Westminster Secondary School replacement project. Politicians, district staff, parents and students descended on the high school Tuesday to hear
the education minister announce that funding had finally been approved for New Westminster’s long-awaited new high school. “I’m really excited we’ve been able to find a path through this. I think, as a lot of people in the area know, parents that are here today, people from New Westminster, this is a long time coming, but it’s not a project we
wanted to rush into,” Education Minister Mike Bernier told the crowd. The announcement comes one year after the New Westminster school district submitted its project definition report to the Ministry of Education.The district had expected a funding approval last fall, but the fall soon passed without word from the province.
Bernier toured the high school in December, at which time he told the Record an announcement could be expected in early 2016. That time too came and went without any news. Now that the project is approved, however, some parents are expressing caution rather than excitement. Danielle Connelly, whose two sons are in grades 4 and 6, told the Record she was pleased the province had finally given the proj-
ect a green light. “It’s hard not to be excited, but we have been down this road before so there’s a tinge of cautious optimism,” she said. Connelly organized a rally in April calling on the provincial government to approve funding for the project.Tuesday’s announcement is good news, she said, but it’ll take more than an announcement before she believes there will Continued on page 3
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