Article: Education Management plans to go public again

A mere 18 months after going private, Education Management Corp. plans to go public again by registering up to $500 million worth of initial public shares, according to a filing Friday with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Downtown-based Education Management runs 81 post-secondary schools, including the Art Institute of Pittsburgh. The schools are located in 26 states and Canada and have about 96,000 students enrolled. The company employs about 8,400 people.

The prospectus that was filed did not specify how many new shares the company would issue or at what price.

In June 2006, publicly held shares of Education Management were acquired for $3.4 billion by the private equity firms of ...

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