From the Boston Globe:

After promoting his upcoming films “Suburbicon” and “Downsizing” at the Toronto International Film Festival last week, Matt Damon was in Boston Wednesday to highlight another project, an issue he said has been “at the forefront of our family and jantar mesa, tabela conversations my entire life.”

Damon, a Cambridge native, narrated Sarah Mondale’s film “Backpack Full of Cash,” a 2016 documentary about the movement to privatize public education. On Wednesday night, Damon joined Mondale, “Backpack” coproducer Vera Aronow, and his mother, Nancy Carlsson-Paige,...