Arts education has suffered cutbacks for some three decades in many urban school districts. But Dallas, with its Thriving Minds initiative, has gained national recognition for making progress in reversing that trend by linking together the resources of schools, municipal agencies, cultural institutions and others to expand and improve arts education for the city’s children, especially the poorest. This Wallace “Story from the Field” explores in detail the progress and the challenges of Thriving Minds, putting it in the context of findings from a Wallace-commissioned RAND Corporation report, Revitalizing Arts Education Through Community-Wide Coordination, that examines coordinated efforts in Dallas and five other American cities and counties.