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Who's Funding The Groups For And Against Ballot Question 2?

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Students at Boston's Brooke Charter School participate in class. (Josh Reynolds/AP)
Students at Boston's Brooke Charter School participate in class. (Josh Reynolds/AP)

The question of lifting the cap on the state's charter schools is possibly the most contentious question we'll see on the ballot in November. So, who is funding the campaigns that support and oppose the question?

Just last week, the Massachusetts Office of Campaign and Political Finance released 60th day preceding election reports for the four groups supporting question two and the one group opposing.

Maurice Cunningham has been looking into those reports.

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Maurice Cunningham, political science professor at UMass Boston and co-founder and contributor to the political blog, MassPolitics Profs. He tweets @MassPolProfMo.

This segment aired on September 12, 2016.

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