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(2021) . Profiles of For-Profit and Nonprofit Education Management Organizations: Fifteenth Edition. Boulder, CO: National Education Policy Center. Retrieved [date] from [http://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/emo](http://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/emo)profiles-fifteenth-ed  \nThis publication is provided free of cost to NEPC’s readers, who may make non-commercial use of it as long as NEPC and its author(s) are credited as the source. For inquiries about commercial use, please [contact NEPC at](contact NEPC at nepc@colorado.edu)[ nepc@colorado.edu](contact NEPC at nepc@colorado.edu).  \nThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercialNoDerivatives 4.0 International License.  \n[http://nepc.colorado.edu/](http://nepc.colorado.edu/pXElLFDtLon)[pXElLFDtLon](http://nepc.colorado.edu/pXElLFDtLon)􀀒ePo-profiles-fifteenth-ed 2 of 92  \nTable of Contents  \nExecutive Summary 4  \nIntroduction and Background 8  \nPurpose and Significance of This Report 8  \nThe EMO Industry: Background and Rationale 9  \nDefining Education Management Organizations 9  \nWhy Group Nonprofit EMOs with For-Profit EMOs? 10  \nDescription of Data Collection and Sources of Information 12  \nFindings 15  \nNumber, Status and Size of EMOs Profiled 15  \nTotal Number of Schools Managed by For-Profit and Nonprofit EMOs 18  \nNumber of EMO Schools by State 20  \nNumber of Students in Schools Managed by EMOs 20  \nEMOs, Privatization, and Public Charter Schools 22  \nSummary 25  \nRecommendations 26  \nFor-Profit EMOs 28  \nExtra Large For-Profit EMOs 28  \nLarge For-Profit EMOs 28  \nMedium For-Profit EMOs 30  \nSmall For-Profit EMOs 32  \nNonprofit EMOs 40  \nExtra Large Nonprofit EMOs 40  \nLarge Nonprofit EMOs 41  \nMedium Nonprofit EMOs 45  \nSmall Nonprofit EMOs 60  \n[http://nepc.colorado.edu/](http://nepc.colorado.edu/pXElLFDtLon)[pXElLFDtLon](http://nepc.colorado.edu/pXElLFDtLon)􀀒ePo-profiles-fifteenth-ed 3 of 92  \nProfiles of for-Profit and nonProfit education ManageMent organizations: fifteenth edition  \nGary Miron, Charisse Gulosino (University of Memphis), Christopher Shank, Najat Elgeberi, Caryn Davidson, Fanny Hernandez De Alvarez, Brandy Jurdzy, Judith Larsen, Dung Pham, Kelly Ruder, Laura Urdapilleta, & Jessica Urschel  \nWestern Michigan University  \nFebruary 2021  \nExecutive Summary  \nThe past two decades have marked tremendous growth in the number of public schools that are privately operated and, in a growing number of cases, also privately owned. Known as education management organizations (EMOs), these are private companies or organizations that are rapidly expanding their market shares of the public education sector, particularly public charter schools.  \nThe release of the Fifteenth Edition of the Profiles of For-Profit and Nonprofit Education Management Organizations comes after a more than seven-year lapse since the fourteenth edition was released. As the evidence underlines, between the 14th and 15th Edition of this report, there has been steady growth across for-profit EMOs, and a much more expansive growth by private nonprofit E","cbCaik1ms3niHLwY","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaik1ms3niHLwY","pdf",4237906,92,"English","# Executive Summary\n## EMO Number, Status and Size\n## EMOs and States\n## Findings and Trends","[{\"question\":\"What is the focus of this fifteenth edition report?\",\"answer\":\"The report analyzes how education management organizations (EMOs) operate and expand within the public education sector, especially through public charter schools.\"},{\"question\":\"How many EMOs and schools are profiled in the report?\",\"answer\":\"The report profiles 636 EMOs (117 for-profit and 519 nonprofit). In 2018-19, EMOs operated a total of 3,729 public charter or district schools, with the count likely underestimating excluded schools.\"},{\"question\":\"What does the report say about EMO growth since the prior edition?\",\"answer\":\"It describes steady growth among for-profit EMOs and more expansive growth among private nonprofit EMOs between the fourteenth and fifteenth editions.\"}]","Profiles of for-Profit and nonProfit Education Management Organizations - Fifteenth Edition - Executive summary and findings | PDF",1792047979,232]