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For five years, John McLaughlin has tracked the performance of publicly traded companies in the burgeoning "education industry" and reported his findings in his newsletter, The Education Industry Report(r). In his perspective, this education industry includes such diverse players as publisher, Scholastic; educational software seller, The Learning Company; tutoring specialist, Sylvan Learning Systems; and youth services company, Children's Comprehensive Services; as well as child care chains. We interviewed McLaughlin to find out why companies choose to go public and how publicly traded child care companies are doing.


Exchange: Is it common for child care organizations to be publicly traded?

McLaughlin: No, it isn't. At present there are only a few publicly traded child care companies. You have a handful on the NASDAQ - Children's Discovery Centers, Child-time, CorporateFamily Solutions, and Nobel Education Dynamics. There are no child care companies on the New York Stock Exchange. You also have a few child ...