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The Death of Public School: How Conservatives Won the War Over Education in America

byCara Fitzpatrick

Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Cara Fitzpatrick traces the long conservative campaign to redirect public funding toward private, religious, charter, and home-school alternatives. She follows legal organizations, donors, activists, politicians, parents, and court cases that transformed “school choice” from a marginal idea into national policy. The book connects current voucher battles with desegregation, religious liberty, teachers' unions, and disputes over what schools should teach. Fitzpatrick shows how a movement framed around individual freedom may fundamentally alter the shared institution of public education and the democratic obligations attached to it.

Publisher

Basic Books

Publication date

2023

Format

Print edition

Pages

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ISBN

9781541646773