Analysts Debate Long-Term Viability of EMO Model
For-profit management seen as failing by some, up-and-coming by others.
Private management of public schools has traveled a rocky road since the school choice movement took hold in the early 1990s. With entrepreneurial zeal, education management organizations, or EMOs—for-profit companies that can open and operate charter schools as well as manage regular public schools—promised to provide high-quality education in a more cost-effective and innovative way.
So have EMOs delivered?
That depends...
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