Cara Fitzpatrick is an editor at Chalkbeat. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting in 2016 for a series about school segregation. She was a New Arizona fellow in 2019 at New America and a Spencer fellow at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism in 2018. Fitzpatrick lives in New York City with her husband and children.
"An extraordinary achievement...thoroughly researched."--C-SPAN
"Opens with a superb survey of the political, cultural, legal and
natural forces undermining public trust in our nation's schools...
The book is a timely history of a movement that could reshape
American education and set off explosive policy debates for many
years."--New York Times
Best Summer Book of 2023--Financial Times
"A great addition to education and behavioral sciences
collections." --Library Journal
"The Death of Public School manages to provide grounding context to
the labyrinthine journey of the school-choice movement, profiling
both the well-known figures and the less familiar activists,
lawyers, educators, and parents on both sides who have shaped this
war. In Fitzpatrick's capable hands, a sequel would certainly be
much appreciated."
--Booklist
"A cohesive study of America's path to increasingly
politicized--and privatized--education."--Kirkus
"Meticulously drawn from years of archival research, this is a
lucid and thorough study of a hot-button issue."--Publishers
Weekly
"The Death of Public School is history at its best, unfurling a
remarkable, troubling tale. In chilling detail, Cara Fitzpatrick
lays out how in plain sight the conservatives have worked to
dismantle public education. In this recounting, Fitzpatrick has
issued a clarion call, to renew our public commitment to providing
an equitable and rigorous schooling for all."--Alex Kotlowitz,
author of An American Summer
"Cara Fitzpatrick has written a remarkable book on the decades long
battle over school choice. Deeply researched and beautifully
written, this is a story of the calculating lawmakers and
surprising political alliances who have redefined public education
with profound implications for families, communities, and the
nation. This is a must-read book for anyone who cares about the
future of education in America."--Matthew F. Delmont, Dartmouth
College and author of Half American: The Epic Story of African
Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad
"Cara Fitzpatrick has produced a crucial political history of the
movement that, often quietly, has threatened the public nature of
America's education system. The Death of Public School is timely,
carefully researched, and critically important."--Dana Goldstein,
author of The Teacher Wars: A History of America's Most Embattled
Profession
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