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•NATIONAL BESTSELLER
•A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR.
•2025 Winner of the Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism

The urgent, revelatory story of 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.

Award-winning journalist Mike Hixenbaugh delivers the eye-opening story of Southlake, Texas, a well-funded district that seemed to offer everything parents would want for their children’s success. But after a series of racist incidents became public, a plan to promote inclusiveness was proposed in response — and a coordinated conservative backlash erupted, lighting the fire of a national movement to return Donald Trump to power and to change the face of public schools across the country.

They Came for the Schools pulls back the curtain on this crusade to ban books, rewrite curricula, limit rights for racial minority and LGBTQ students, and, most important, to win what Hixenbaugh’s deeply informed reporting convinces is the holy grail for the powerful forces seeking to impose biblical values on American society: school privatization, one school board and one legal battle at a time.

“Propulsive. . . . This razor-sharp book is the masterful culmination of years of reportage. . . . A work of compassion, one that never fails to center the vulnerability or the dignity of students.”—Washington Post

• Mike Hixenbaugh
• Published 1970 January 1st by (first published 2024 May 14th)
• ISBN: 0063307243
• ISBN13: 9780063307247
• Pages
• 4.45 2412 ratings
• 422 reviews