Truth To Power | The Death Of Public School | Cara Fitzpatrick | 10-18-24

On this week's program, we listen back to an important event held at Louisville's Main Public Library on October 15th, 2024. Today, education is poised to become a private commodity rather than a universal good, and the very existence of the traditional public school is threatened, according to Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Cara Fitzpatrick. Join her for this compelling discussion on the future of public schooling. Cara Fitzpatrick is a Story Editor for Chalkbeat National and New York. She covered education at newspapers in Florida and won the Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting in 2016 for a series about school segregation. The series also was honored with a Polk award and the Worth Bingham for Investigative Journalism, among others. She was a New America fellow in 2019 and a Spencer fellow at Columbia University in 2018. She is a graduate of the University of Washington and the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. She wrote the 2003 book about the history of school choice in America called "The Death of Public School: How Conservatives Won the War Over Education in America". She lives in New York City with her husband and three children. Learn more at https://www.chalkbeat.org/authors/cara-fitzpatrick/ On Truth to Power each week, we gather people from around the community to discuss the state of the world, the nation, the state, and the city! It's a community conversation like you won't hear anywhere else! Truth to Power airs every Friday at 9pm, Saturday at 11am, and Sunday at 4pm on Louisville's grassroots, community radio station, Forward Radio 106.5fm WFMP and live streams at https://forwardradio.org