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Molnar, Alex; Miron, Gary; Urschel, Jessica – Commercialism in Education Research Unit, 2009
Education management organizations, or EMOs, emerged in the early 1990s in the context of widespread interest in so-called market-based school reform proposals. Wall Street analysts coined the term EMO as an analogue to health maintenance organizations (HMOs). Proponents of EMOs claim that they bring a much needed dose of entrepreneurial spirit…
Descriptors: School Restructuring, Educational Administration, Educational Change, Profiles