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To the present. This is an important book for fitting in how wisconsin story, especially milwaukee now, is part of a larger story of School Vouchers and School Choice in the country. And my own book suddenly diverse, which i the privilege of presenting earlier. It looks at how school them School Board Members and superintendents and to a smaller medium sized districts faced intensifying pressures as they had a demographically changing school system. And it deals with overlapping themes including School Choice policy, racial inequality and the undermining of Public Schools. So its really fun to put it also in this broader context and for reason, im really appreciative care for presenting today and helping us to kind of expand the stories that were telling about School Education policy and how think about equity at this moment. Thanks so much. Welcome, kara fitzpatrick. Thanks so much, everyone, for coming. Can you hear me okay . Just to make sure, are we good . Okay. I just have some no
For a series on school segregation. Shes been a new america fellow in 2019 and a spencer fellow at the Columbia University school of journalism in 2018. Her book the death of a the death of Public School conservatives won the war over education. America is a historical account of actors and sites across the u. S. From southern segregationist, famous to our own former state. Wisconsin legislator, democrat williams, who was motivated empower black families and black youth. Milwaukee and she looks at the roles these and many others in the rise of School Choice in u. S. And the u. S. From the 1950s to the present. This is an important book for fitting in how wisconsin story, especially milwaukee now, is part of a larger story of School Vouchers and School Choice in the country. And my own book suddenly diverse, which i the privilege of presenting earlier. It looks at how school them School Board Members and superintendents and to a smaller medium sized districts faced intensifying pressure
Be readyor anything. It is wonderful to be here talking with you today about your book. I want to first say what an extraordinary achievement the book is. The authoritative history that ive ever read in the School Choice movement. Its thoroughly researched and it really feels encyclopedic to me almost. Its everything that you would ever need to know. I wanted to first ask, im very familiar with your incredible work as an education reporter and i know a lot of education reporters have these sort of crystallizing moments in reporting with a classroom or in the family and we have a moment. I am curious to know if you have one of those moments that led you to start writing the book . I started thinking about School Choice movement when i was reporting about segregation in florida and as a part of that, we interviewed our team interviewed dozens of families trying to escape these and i was sort of struck by the options were. There were other Public Schools, Charter Schools and then a sum of
The most authoritative history that ive personally ever read of the School Choice movement is so thoroughly researched it really it really feels encyclopedic to me. Almost like it is everything you would ever need to know. I wanted to first ask, im obviously familiar with your incredible work as education reporter and. I know a lot of education reporters have these sort of crystallizing moments in reporting where were in classroom or with a family and we have an aha moment. Im curious, know if you had one of those moments that led you to start writing this book. Its a good i think i think you know i started thinking about the School Choice movement when i was reporting about segregation in florida and as part of that reporting, we interviewed our team interviewed just dozens of families that were essentially trying to escape the segregated sort of low schools in this particular county in florida. And i was i was sort of struck by what the options were. You know, there other Public Scho