President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities (PCAH) co-chairs George Stevens Jr. and Margo Lion today announced the expansion of PCAH’s successful Turnaround Arts initiative — a program designed to help turn around low-performing schools, narrow the achievement gap, and increase student engagement through the arts. The program is expanding to 6 additional states this year, including five Des Moines schools. The Committee also announced that two Turnaround Artists — actor, producer and civil servant Kal Penn and Tony Award-winning singer and actor John Lloyd Young — will “adopt” the Turnaround Arts schools in Des Moines and work directly with students to support their arts education.

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