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]}

She lives in New York with her husband and three children. ^[9]

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.
9. "Cara Fitzpatrick". Chalkbeat. Retrieved 2025-08-08.