THE DEATH OF PUBLIC SCHOOL: How Conservatives Won the War Over Education in America, by Cara FitzpatrickCara Fitzpatrick’s first book,“The Death of Public School,” opens with a superb survey of the political, cultural, legal and natural forces undermining public trust in our nation’s schools. This means less money for traditional public schools and the 90 percent of American students who attend them. “Support for traditional public education has become another partisan divide in our already divided country,” writes Fitzpatrick, a Pulitzer Prize-winning education reporter and editor. “The Death of Public School” is a history of how that happened. And, curiously, it ends before the arrival of the Covid pandemic and the convulsions of school closings, book banning and school culture wars — all of which have become accelerants for the “freedom of choice” idea in education.

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Persons: Cara Fitzpatrick Cara Fitzpatrick’s, ”, Fitzpatrick, Mark Twain, Milton Friedman Organizations: Conservatives Won, Public School, Republican, Public Locations: America