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Schweizer Goes Back to School: Bestselling Author Partners for Public School Exposé.

‘Race to the Bottom’ Culminates 2 Years of Research into America’s Public Schools.


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Bestselling author and Government Accountability Institute President Peter Schweizer joins forces with the Daily Wire’s Luke Rosiak for new book Race to the Bottom: Uncovering the Secret Forces Destroying American Public Education —available next week, from HarperCollins.

Schweizer, fresh off the success of his New York Times bestseller Red-Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win, lends his investigatory acumen and the GAI’s world-renowned track record for exposing corruption, to Rosiak’s dogged reporting on public school overreach (think Loudoun County Virginia).

“My work as an investigative journalist involves sifting our nation’s political class for evidence of corruption,” said Schweizer. “What I have seen over my decades of work is that corruption is most likely to fester where no one is looking. What Luke has found is that some of the same forms of deception, self-­dealing, and corruption that I have seen in the halls of power are also occurring behind the friendly-­seeming facades of the schools in your town. He identifies systemic rot in an area that is, somehow, simultaneously omnipresent and remarkably under-scrutinized.”

Race to the Bottom has been underway since 2019, and is more relevant than ever in the age of COVID; public school shutdowns exposed the rot on the underbelly of our classrooms.

“Luke Rosiak’s exhaustive work in this book shows that while it might have been parents’ first glimpse of such issues, they did not appear in K–12 schools overnight. Through the stories of local school systems in different parts of the country—from inner cities to wealthy suburbs and rural areas—Luke shows readers how, for years, local K–12 school systems have been captured by a variety of special interests whose allegiance is to anything but the ‘three Rs,’” Schweizer says.

Race to the Bottom is out March 8th. Red-Handed is available now.