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