ABSTRACT
In 2012, a national arts education program was launched, titled "Turnaround Arts", an initiative to support programming of arts education in America's high poverty schools. This chapter analyzes the network map titled "Turnaround Arts network" and reveal how public and private partnerships engaged in providing schools with services from non-profit and for-profit vendors. Among these partners are influential corporations, foundations, and non-profits. The implications of the Turnaround Arts network can be seen in two ways. On one hand, the private and public partnerships have collaborated in bringing arts programming to students in high-poverty neighborhoods. In some cases, students in K-12 schools are being exposed to classes in dance, theater, music, or visual arts for the first time. On the other hand, the analysis can be seen as having implications of the privatization of the education movement. The implications can be best explained through the theoretical paradigm of economization of education.
