Scale of Operations and Locus of Control in Market- Versus Mission-Oriented Charter Schools-super-

The objective of this article is to investigate two distinct strands in the charter school movement: one that emphasizes school-based management and another that emphasizes market efficiency. We were interested in whether charter schools that were founded or co-founded by for-profit education management organizations (EMOs) tend to pursue economies of scale and are less likely than others to implement school-level decision making in key areas. Copyright (c) 2004 by the Southwestern Social Science Association.