Boston Sports Teams Weigh in on Charter Schools (9 p.m.) - a podcast by WBZ-AM

The Boston Red Sox and the Boston Celtics have thrown their support behind an effort to use Boston zip code quotas to select students for admissions to Boston Latin School and two other exam schools. The teams believe that the existing exam system has resulted in the schools remaining “largely inaccessible to far too many students, including students of color and students residing in some of Boston’s lowest-income ZIP codes.” Should professional sports teams get actively involved in political controversy?

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