Transcripts show grades doctored at charter school

The San Francisco Chronicle reports:

In spring 2006, teachers' records for an 11th-grade boy at University Preparatory Charter Academy in East Oakland showed an F and five D's.

His report card for the same period featured three D's and three C's.

His transcript -- the one received by the California State University campuses that accepted him -- glowed with three A's and three B's.

Those and the academic records of four other students at the public charter school, known as Uprep, validate what teachers have been saying for weeks:

Someone at the school has doctored students' grades and transcripts, apparently in an effort to give them a leg up in college.

The documents were given to The Chronicle by a Uprep teacher who requested anonymity for fear of reprisal.

Great moments in "public" education.