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Tania Carreira and Catherine Harel-Bourdon

budget cuts: The Commission Scolaire de Montréal said Monday it has found space to allow about one-third of the 143 students who were bumped from the schools they attended last year to return to those schools, according to CBC. CSDM warns budget cuts will hurt school services FACE students form human chain to protest Quebec education cuts "We're conscious of what parents are going through when a student has to change schools," said CSDM chairwoman Catherine Harel-Bourdon. "But we've also had a major increase in the number of students." Tania Carreira says her 9-year-old son Ethan, left, was thrilled to learn he will be reunited with his Grade Four classmates after being bumped from Lambert-Closse school last week. "There were a lot of immigrant students arriving during the summer. They vow to force the city largest French-language school board to make room for 13 students who have been told there no room for them at the school. Many parents registered their children at the last minute, and we have budget constraints. The head of the school governing board, Yves Blanchet, says he has heard from the board that only 5 of the 18 children affected will be able to return to Lambert-Closse. We have to deal with this whole situation all in the first few days of school." 13 still 'out in the cold' at Lambert-Closse At Lambert-Closse school in Mile-End last week, parents of 18 children found out that they had to find new schools for their children, all of whom live outside of the school designated boundaries. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.