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    The Cincinnati Federation of Teachers (CFT) filed a counterclaim asking a judge to rule that parts of a 2002 agreement between Cincinnati Public Schools and a local anti-tax group violate teachers' free speech rights. The agreement broadly prohibits communication on district property for campaign purposes. The anti-tax group, COAST, has sued the district twice for violating that agreement. The CFT counterclaim argues that teachers have a constitutional right to support school levies, especially since a state law change, and that their use of email did not violate the agreement. COAST argues the teachers' actions were illegal and used tax dollars for campaigning. The CFT says the teachers acted independently, not at the direction of the district, and that

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    The Cincinnati Federation of Teachers (CFT) filed a counterclaim asking a judge to rule that parts of a 2002 agreement between Cincinnati Public Schools and a local anti-tax group violate teachers' free speech rights. The agreement broadly prohibits communication on district property for campaign purposes. The anti-tax group, COAST, has sued the district twice for violating that agreement. The CFT counterclaim argues that teachers have a constitutional right to support school levies, especially since a state law change, and that their use of email did not violate the agreement. COAST argues the teachers' actions were illegal and used tax dollars for campaigning. The CFT says the teachers acted independently, not at the direction of the district, and that

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    The Cincinnati Federation of Teachers (CFT) filed a counterclaim asking a judge to rule that parts of a 2002 agreement between Cincinnati Public Schools and a local anti-tax group violate teachers' free speech rights. The agreement broadly prohibits communication on district property for campaign purposes. The anti-tax group, COAST, has sued the district twice for violating that agreement. The CFT counterclaim argues that teachers have a constitutional right to support school levies, especially since a state law change, and that their use of email did not violate the agreement. COAST argues the teachers' actions were illegal and used tax dollars for campaigning. The CFT says the teachers acted independently, not at the direction of the district, and that

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    Union files counterclaim in GPS levy fray


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    say it's OK, too. to 'use property or personnel grounds.
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    violate agreement,
    The Cincinnati: Federation' fc;>rcampaigI}.purposes. The agreement broadly prQ-
    of Teachers filed ai motion last The eFT, in aCQunterelaim communi-
    week in Hamilton County Com- filed Nov. 21, asks the jIiifae to ' cation on distriet property. '
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    said COAST attorney
    Chris Finney. "COAST has
    decided to make 'this a
    Continued from Page B1 core of our strategy.
    And We've been success-
    used the company email ful:'
    system to discuss voter '. But 10m Mooney, who
    registration and rallies in
    advance of a Nov. 6 CPS Federation of Teachers,
    tax renewal. says the teachers were
    "It's wrong, and it's ille- acting 'on their own, not
    gal. It's illegal to cam- under the direction of the
    paignwithourtaxdollars, ,.school:diitrict. The 2002
    they' '
    vent them from using
    email to discuss, ,a cam-
    paign, 'according to his
    counterclaim.
    The countertlaim also
    notes teachers have the
    right under the Ohio Con-
    stitution, Ohio law and
    their collective bargain-
    ing agreement to 'support
    school leViesl especially
    since the passage of the

    ''We're there to say
    there is no violation of the
    (COAST)' agreement,"
    said Mooney. "We're there
    , to stand up for the rights
    of CFTand their mem-
    bers to eXpress their,First
    Amendment right."
    "I think there is a dif-
    {erent of
    the 2002 agreement, said
    Mooney. ''1 think'
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    never intended to go."
    Finney disagreed.
    ''What they're saying" is
    that means the have the
    right to campaign using
    public propeny," he said.
    "It's posi-
    tion they're

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