Cara Fitzpatrick

Oct 12, 2023 | tampabay.com | Cara Fitzpatrick

In the past seven decades, an astonishing array of people and organizations have tried to wrest taxpayer funding away from America’s public schools and give it to private ones. In many cases, they’ve had motives other than improving education for all.

Sep 22, 2023 | thefreelibrary.com | Cara Fitzpatrick

The Death of Public School: How Conservatives Won the War Over Education in Americaby Cara FitzpatrickBasic Books, 2023, $32; 384 pages. CARA FITZPATRICK'S NEW BOOK does not deliver on the promise of its title, for it doesn't describe the death of public schools or even show that they have a nasty cough. Instead, this volume by a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist recounts a history of the school-choice movement in which public education remains very much alive and well.

Sep 12, 2023 | theatlantic.com | Cara Fitzpatrick

In early June, a state board in Oklahoma did something that seemed obviously unconstitutional: It approved a new, openly Catholic charter school. Students at the proposed St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School would receive religious instruction, and the online school would participate in “the evangelizing mission of the Church,” according to St. Isidore’s application to the state.

Aug 14, 2023 | bookshop.org | Cara Fitzpatrick

(Author) FORMAT Hardcover$32.00$29.76(English) Backorder (temporarily out of stock) Buy new or used from an indie through our partner Biblio: Price Condition Seller A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist shows how conservatives have pushed for a revolution in public education--one that threatens the existence of the traditional public school America has relied on public schools for 150 years, but the system is increasingly under attack.

Jul 24, 2023 | newswav.com | Cara Fitzpatrick

Private school vouchers lost a lot of battles, but they may have won the war. As the new school year kicks off, education advocates are bracing for continued attacks on America's public schools. Yet despite the ongoing culture wars schools have facedin recent years,pollsters find that parents still generally like their kids' schools, and most of the political opposition has come from those without kids in the public school system.