Cara Fitzpatrick

at Virginia Festival of the Book 2024

Cara Fitzpatrick is an American journalist. She won a 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting.[1] and 2015 George Polk Award.

Life

She graduated from University of Washington, and the Columbia University School of Journalism. She worked for the Tampa Bay Times.[2] In 2018, she was a Spencer Fellow.[3] In 2019, she was a New Arizona Fellow.[4] She is an editor at Chalkbeat.[5][6]

In 2023, she published the book The Death of Public School: How Conservatives Won the War Over Education in America, which details the history of public education privatization since the 1960s.[7][8]

Works

  • Fitzpatrick, Cara (2023-08-22). The Death of Public School. New York: Basic Books. ISBN 978-1-5416-4677-3.

References

  1. ^ "Michael LaForgia, Cara Fitzpatrick and Lisa Gartner of Tampa Bay Times". www.pulitzer.org. Retrieved 2020-09-24.
  2. ^ "Cara Fitzpatrick". spencerfellows.org. Retrieved 2020-09-24.
  3. ^ "Cara Fitzpatrick | RSF". www.russellsage.org. Retrieved 2020-09-24.
  4. ^ "Cara Fitzpatrick". New America. Retrieved 2020-09-24.
  5. ^ "Cara Fitzpatrick Profile and Activity – Chalkbeat". www.chalkbeat.org. Retrieved 2020-09-24.
  6. ^ admin (2020-09-01). "Meet CHALKBEAT Newest Story Editor, Cara Fitzpatrick". City-County Observer. Retrieved 2020-09-24.
  7. ^ "The Death of Public School: How Conservatives Won the War over Education in America by Cara Fitzpatrick". www.publishersweekly.com. Retrieved 2024-06-12.
  8. ^ Russakoff, Dale (2023-09-11). "Is School Choice Destroying Public Education?". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2024-06-12.