Most readers familiar with Luke Rosiak probably know him as the Daily Wire reporter who broke the explosive cover-up by the Loudoun County school board of a rape by a boy in the girls’ restroom. The scandal, which culminated in the accused rapist’s conviction in juvenile court, dominated the news in the weeks leading to the Virginia gubernatorial election, which Republican Glenn Youngkin ultimately won just a year after Joe Biden had won the state by 10 points.

So, you would be mistaken for assuming that Rosiak’s latest book, Race to the Bottom: Uncovering the Secret Forces Destroying American Public Education, would consist solely of red meat for a raging culture war being waged in the country’s classrooms (and school bathrooms). But although Rosiak, an alum of the Daily Caller, Washington Times and Washington Examiner, does investigate many of the schoolhouse conflicts particularly salient to the conservative base, the book’s bottom line is hardly political. As Rosiak characterizes it, the book is “about what happens when schools start putting their resources into everything except preparing our children for college or careers.”