2005, compared with 29.1 at Pioneer High and 40.8 percent at Huron High, making CHS, as former Dean Peter Ways wrote in 2007, "one of the least diverse schools in Ann Arbor." Over the past decade, a number of local critics have argued that the high number of applications for CHS student slots suggested serious weaknesses at the city's traditional high schools. But, to the extent that applicants are motivated by overcrowding at the city's other schools, the problem was expected to be ameliorated following the opening of Skyline High School, a third traditional school, in 2008. The class of 2009 had the second-highest ACT scores in the state of Michigan. As one of the school's many Community Resource Program offerings, Ann Arbor-based Google AdWords developed a class for CHS students in 2007. In 2008, planners in Albuquerque, New Mexico, filed an application to open a charter school in that city, named Ray of Hope High School, which would be "modeled after Community High School in Ann Arbor" and developed through intensive research visits to CHS. Notable alumni Gene Sperling, (1977): former economic adviser to President Bill Clinton and director of the National Economic Council, 1996–2000 and 2011–2014. Sean Hastings, (1986): founding CEO of HavenCo and co-author of the book God Wants You Dead Neda Ulaby, (1989): correspondent for National Public Radio Rachel DeWoskin, (1990): screen actress and author Shael Polakow-Suransky (1990): president of the Bank Street College of Education; former senior deputy chancellor, New York City Department of Education Sasha Polakow-Suransky (1997): editor for Foreign Policy Davy Rothbart, (1992): author, radio personality, documentary filmmaker, editor of Found Magazine Erin Kamler, (1993): Song writer and dramatist Randy Napoleon, (1995): jazz musician Andrew "W.K." Wilkes-Krier, (1997): nationally known punk/metal/noise musician Odin Biron, (2003): actor on Russian medical sitcom Interns Isaac Vallie-Flagg, professional mixed martial artist, former UFC Lightweight See also Youth empowerment Youth voice Anarchistic free school References External links Student-run online newspaper, "The Communicator" Community High School homepage CHS online student publication, The Communicator Jones Elementary School oral history and photo project, and documents on the school's 1965 closure Photographs of Earthworks High School in the 1970s Essay on Earthworks High School's history by former teacher Allan Schreiber Michigan Daily article on CHS's two-week enrollment line-up of 1996 Essay on CHS's alternative approach from a University of Michigan graduate student Larry Abramson, "Alternative 'Commie' High Mellows with Time," National Public