In They Came for the Schools: One Town’s Fight Over Race and Identity, and the New War for America’s Classrooms, ” NBC senior investigative reporter Mike Hixenbaugh reveals how a school board win for the conservative right in one Texas suburb inspired a Christian nationalist campaign now threatening to undermine public education in America.
Hixenbaugh will be in conversation with:
Kasey Meehan, Director, PEN America Freedom to Read Project
Frank Strong, Co-Director, Texas Freedom to Read Project
Becky Calzada, District Library Coordinator in Leander, Co-founding member of Texas #FReadom Fighters.
Event will be followed by a booksigning with Hixenbaugh. Books available for purchase courtesy of Reverie Books.
Mike Hixenbaugh
Mike Hixenbaugh is a senior investigative reporter for NBC News, co-creator of the Southlake and Grapevine podcasts. Hixenbaugh’s reporting in recent years on the battles over race, gender, and sexuality in public schools won a Peabody Award and was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Hixenbaugh lives in Maryland with his wife and four children.
Co-sponsored with PEN America Austin and the Austin Public Library.
Free and open to the public. 
