The Death of Public School: How Conservatives Won the War Over Education in America

A Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist shows how conservatives have pushed for a revolution in public education—one that threatens the existence of the traditional public school America has relied on public schools for 150 years, but the system is increasingly under attack.

With declining enrollment and diminished trust in public education, policies that steer tax dollars into private schools have grown rapidly.

To understand how we got here, The Death of Public School argues, we must look back at the turbulent history of school choice.