In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans embarked on a total turnaround and reinvention of its formerly failing school system. Bogged down by bureaucracy, shackled by systemic racism and further weakened by the greatest natural disaster in American history, state and city leaders, education reformers and community members faced the challenge of getting children back in schools, and making those schools better than they were before. "Turnaround" takes a historic look at the changes across the city, and explores whether the charter school movement has been successful in its goals – and could it be a warning, or a model, for other cities?

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