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.56
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.78
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
References
- "Michael LaForgia, Cara Fitzpatrick and Lisa Gartner of Tampa Bay Times". www.pulitzer.org. Retrieved 2020-09-24.
- "Cara Fitzpatrick". spencerfellows.org. Retrieved 2020-09-24.
- "Cara Fitzpatrick | RSF". www.russellsage.org. Retrieved 2020-09-24.
- "Cara Fitzpatrick". New America. Retrieved 2020-09-24.
- "Cara Fitzpatrick Profile and Activity – Chalkbeat". www.chalkbeat.org. Retrieved 2020-09-24.
- admin (2020-09-01). "Meet CHALKBEAT Newest Story Editor, Cara Fitzpatrick". City-County Observer. Retrieved 2020-09-24.
- "The Death of Public School: How Conservatives Won the War over Education in America by Cara Fitzpatrick". www.publishersweekly.com. Retrieved 2024-06-12.
- Russakoff, Dale (2023-09-11). "Is School Choice Destroying Public Education?". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2024-06-12.
- "Cara Fitzpatrick". Chalkbeat. Retrieved 2025-08-08.