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Suit: District pushed students to vote for Dems - Boston.com

Suit: District pushed students to vote for Dems - Boston.com

Suit: District pushed students to vote for Dems

November 1, 2010
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CINCINNATI—A high school principal has been suspended after a claim that students were taken to a voting precinct house on a field trip, shown how to vote and given Democratic sample ballots.

An anti-tax group sued Cincinnati Public Schools over the Oct. 13 trip by Hughes High School students to the Hamilton County Board of Elections. The Coalition Opposed to Additional Spending and Taxes charges the trip violated a pact with the district.

The district suspended Hughes principal Virginia Rhodes on Friday for as long as two weeks with pay. A disciplinary hearing will be held Wednesday for Dennis McFadden, social studies teacher who took the students to the board

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