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Amethod Public Schools (formerly Oakland Charter Academy Inc., doing business as Oakland Charter Academies) is a nonprofit charter school system with headquarters in Oakland, California.〔"(Contact Info )." Amethod Public Schools. Retrieved on September 13, 2011. "AMETHOD PUBLIC SCHOOLS 345 12th street, Oakland, CA 94607"〕 The system operates Oakland Charter Academy (OCA) (Oakland's first charter school), Oakland Charter High School (OCHS), Downtown Charter Academy (DCA), Richmond Charter Academy (RCA) Benito Juarez Elementary School and John Henry High School, the latter three based in Richmond.〔 After a dramatic turnaround, Oakland Academy became the second public school in Oakland, California to win the National Blue Ribbon award. ==History== The system began in 1993.〔"(History )." Amethod Public Schools. Retrieved on September 13, 2011.〕 In the fall 1993 the first school opened, originally as Jingletown Charter School.〔"(Program Philosophy )." Oakland Charter Academies. November 21, 2009. Retrieved on September 13, 2011.〕 It was the first charter school in Oakland and one of the first in California. Originally it had the test scores amongst the lowest in the state.〔Rauh, Grace. "(Charter school movement finds a boomtown in Oakland )." ''The Oakland Tribune''. September 17, 2006. Retrieved on September 13, 2011.〕 Since then the school changed its name to Oakland Charter Academy.〔 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.〔Murphy, Katy. "(Oakland charter schools get high marks and skepticism )." ''The Oakland Tribune''. Monday November 3, 2008. Retrieved on September 13, 2011.〕 Oakland Charter High School opened in 2007.〔 Amethod Public Schools was created in 2009 as the branding of a new Charter Management Organization and a foundational split between the OCA and APCS campuses. The school staff set out to distinguish itself as an innovative lab for school and community redesign. In Spring 2008 the Oakland Charter Academy received an Academic Performance Index (API) of 902. Its student body was mostly Hispanic/Latino, and the API was over 200 points higher than the average API of Latino and Hispanic middle school students in California. The Oakland Charter Academy API was over 200 points above the overall scores of all of the middle schools in Oakland.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Amethod Public Schools」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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