Education Management Corporation Lays Off 3% of its Workforce

Education Management Corporation is a professional and educational technical services company. The Company provides academic and career technical training, as well as other workforce development training, primarily to at-risk youths and adults. It provides various services, including job corps center operations; outreach and admissions, and other recruiting services; career transition, and other placement services; staff and teacher training; specialization in academic and career technical training; curriculum development; research and proposal development; and support and administrative services. It operates as a subcontractor at the Edison Job Corps Academy, located in Edison, NJ, and the Blue Ridge Job Corps Center, located in Marion, VA. It provides all academic and vocational training at these two centers. It also operates as a subcontractor at the Homestead Job Corps Center in Homestead, FL, where it provides support services to the center.