The President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities (PCAH) will expand its successful Turnaround Arts initiative into five additional school districts, as the program continues to successfully help turn around low-performing schools, narrow the achievement gap and increase student engagement through the arts, announced the committee’s co-chairs, George Stevens Jr. and Margo Lion. This follows last year’s major expansion of the program after a Booz Allen Hamilton evaluation of the program’s effectiveness. Turnaround Arts now reaches over 24,000 of the country’s highest-needs students in 50 schools in 14 states and the District of Columbia.

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