Amethod Public Schools
In 2004 Jorge Lopez took control of the school. At the time its Academic Performance Index (API) was 650. Lopez received guidance from Ben Chavis, head of the American Indian Model Schools, and established a system similar to the system of American Indian Public Charter School at Oakland Charter Academy. In late September 2007 the Oakland Charter Academy became the second public school in Oakland to win the National Blue Ribbon award. Oakland Charter High School opened in 2007.
Harold W. McGraw Prize in Education
Past honorees include: 
CEO of EdX Anant Agarwal; 
superintendent of Miami-Dade school district Alberto M. Carvalho; 
CEO of the Afghan Institute of Learning Sakena Yacoobi;
founder of Khan Academy Sal Khan;
former U.S. Secretary of Education Richard Riley;
former U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige; 
James B. Hunt, Jr., former Governor of North Carolina; 
Ellen Moir, co-founder and executive director, New Teacher Center at the University of California, Santa Cruz;
James P. Comer, M.D., Maurice Falk Professor of Child Psychiatry, Yale University Child Study Center; 
Mary E. Diaz, Ph.D., Dean of Education, Alverno College; 
Christopher Cerf, a key creative force behind Sesame Street;
Dennis Littky, co-founder and co-director of The Big Picture Company, The Met School and College Unbound;
and Barbara Bush, founder of the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy and former First Lady.