Education Management Organizations: Growing a For-Profit and Nonprofit Education Industry With Competition

• In Event: Competing Influences: Governance, Unions, and Funding Mechanisms

Abstract

This study uses logistic and ordered logistic regression models to analyze neighborhood factors affecting EMO-operated schools’ locational attributes (using census tracts) in in 45 states for the 2016-2017 school year. Unlike previous research, the study incorporates a random sample of census tracts without EMOs in urban clusters and all sample census tracts covered by EMO-operated schools. The results show that the locational patterns of EMO-operated schools are sensitive to high minority areas, as expected, but also to socio-economic characteristics of the neighborhood. Our results also reveal relatively little variation in locational attributes for for-profit and nonprofit EMOs, but significant locational variation by EMO size.

Authors

• Gary J. Miron, Western Michigan University

• Charisse Atibagos Gulosino, University of Memphis