WBUR and The Boston Globe are teaming up with UMass-Boston to host a series of live debates starting in September to explore the four ballot questions that voters will be asked to decide in November relating to charter schools, legal marijuana, slot gambling and the treatment of farm animals.
The debates, beginning on Sept. 13, will take place each Tuesday as part of WBUR's "Radio Boston" program from 3 p.m to 4 p.m. in front of a live audience in the McCormack Theater on the UMass Boston Campus.
The campaign supporting a ballot question to allow additional charter schools in Massachusetts on Tuesday launched a new television ad aimed at highlighting the successes of charter schools and the options they provide parents.
The 30-second spot, paid for by Great Schools Massachusetts, quotes a Boston Globe editorial calling charter schools successful "by almost any measure" and an editorial from The Sun of Lowell describing the schools as "models of inspiration."
