Policy Brief

Education Management Organizations

Growing a For-profit Education Industry with Choice, Competition, and Innovation

Guilbert C. Hentschke
Scot Oschman
Lisa Snell

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Guilbert C. Hentschke-Dr. Guilbert C. Hentschke is professor of education and management at the University of Southern California's Rossier School of Education, where he served as dean from 1998 to 2000. Currently he directs programs in the business of education, including the Galaxy Institute of Education and the school business management program. An author of numerous books and articles on school reform and charter schools, he currently teaches graduate courses dealing with markets, regulation, and performance in schooling and serves on several boards of education businesses, including the Aspen Education Group, The National Center on Education and the Economy, the Association of Educational Practitioners and Providers, and WestEd Regional Educational Laboratory. Dr. Hentschke earned his bachelor's degree in history and economics at Princeton University and his masters and doctorate in education at Stanford University. He can be reached at ghentsch@usc.edu.

Scot Oschman-Scot Oschman is a Ph.D. candidate at USC's Rossier School of Education, having recently earned his MBA at USC's Marshall School of Business. In addition to working on technology transfer projects for the Galaxy Institute of Education, Oschman teaches fifth grade students in the Los Angeles Unified School District. He can be reached at IRI95@aol.com.

Lisa Snell was the director of education and child welfare at Reason Foundation, a nonprofit think tank advancing free minds and free markets.

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