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Polikoff, Morgan S.; Hough, Heather J.; Marsh, Julie A.; Plank, David N. – Policy Analysis for California Education, PACE, 2020
This report examines findings from the 2020 PACE/USC Rossier poll of California voters. The poll represents the views of 2,000 registered California voters across a range of topics from early childhood education to higher education. Based on these results, the authors have identified five key findings: (1) There is growing pessimism about the…
Descriptors: Public Education, Public Schools, Public Opinion, Educational Attitudes
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
Gill, Brian P.; Hamilton, Laura S.; Lockwood, J. R.; Marsh, Julie A.; Zimmer, Ron W.; Hill, Deanna; Pribesh, Shana – RAND Corporation, 2005
New forms of governing and managing public schools have proliferated in recent years, spawning the establishment and growth of companies that operate public schools under contract. Among these education management organizations, or EMOs, the largest and most visible is Edison Schools, Inc., with a nationwide network in 2004-2005 of 103 managed…
Descriptors: Public Education, Privatization, Charter Schools, Public Schools