_ Contracts worth $9 million were approved for four educational management organizations (EMOs) to continue providing services to 16 schools for one year. Two of the EMOs - Foundations Inc. and Victory Schools - also received two-year contracts to continue working with Martin Luther King High and E.W. Rhodes High, respectively. The other EMOs are EdisonLearning and Universal Companies. The district plans to spend the next year working with the EMOs to overhaul how the companies provide services to schools. Ramirez voted against the contracts.