Cara Fitzpatrick is an American journalist. She won a 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting.^[1] and 2015 George Polk Award. In 2018, she was a Spencer Fellow.^[2] In 2019, she was a New Arizona Fellow.^[3] She graduated from University of Washington, and the Columbia University School of Journalism. She worked for the Tampa Bay Times.^[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]