On the Issues: Cara Fitzpatrick, author of The Death of Public School

Please join us for an “On the Issues” program at 12:15 p.m. on Oct. 20, 2023, at Marquette Law School. A new book by Pulitzer Prize-winning education journalist Cara Fitzpatrick takes up the rise of the school choice movement across the United States. The Death of Public School: How Conservatives Won the War over Education in America goes back to the beginning of advocacy for school vouchers and charter schools and chronicles the path to today. Milwaukee, home to the first urban voucher program in the United States, is a major focus of the book.

Fitzpatrick won a Pulitzer Prize in 2016 for a series of stories she wrote about school segregation in Florida. She is now an editor for Chalkbeat, a national online education reporting organization. 

Fitzpatrick will talk with Alan J. Borsuk, senior fellow in law and public policy at Marquette Law School. This program is cosponsored by the Marquette University College of Education. A light lunch will be served. Copies of the book will be for sale at the event by Boswell Books.