Actress Alfre Woodard, speaking at the 2015 NAMM show in Anaheim at a panel on the Turnaround Arts program for underperforming schools, said, "Art and music and theater help you learn what it is to be human." (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)
Actress Alfre Woodard, speaking at the 2015 NAMM show in Anaheim at a panel on the Turnaround Arts program for underperforming schools, said, “Art and music and theater help you learn what it is to be human.” (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

January 23, 2015

Los Angeles Times, Randy Lewis – The NAMM Foundation is one of several public and private partners supporting the Turnaround Arts initiative, which was created by the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities in conjunction with the Department of Education and the White House Domestic Policy Council… the NAMM Foundation has helped implement the music programs in the Turnaround Arts schools and is providing grants for all the Phase 2 schools, including 10 in California, a NAMM spokeswoman said.

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