Uprep

The San Francisco Chronicle reports more trouble for the Oakland charter school founded by former Pasadena Councilman Isaac Haqq (formerly Isaac Richard).

University Preparatory Charter Academy has defrauded the state of more than $260,000 by forging teachers' signatures to inflate attendance figures at the East Oakland public high school, Oakland education officials say.

At least 30 teachers' signatures on attendance reports from the 2006-07 school year appear to have been forged -- and in one case even misspelled -- according to a letter sent Thursday by Kimberly Statham, state administrator of the Oakland Unified School District, to the governing board of the charter school known as Uprep.

Former Board of Education member and multilevel-marketer Prentice Deadrick is chairman of Uprep's board.