Only a school district as dysfunctional as Oakland would have allowed someone like this to open a charter school.
July 13, 2007 - Isaac Haqq, the founder and principal of an East Oakland charter high school at the center of a cheating scandal, has resigned. This, after the state Department of Education invalidated the school's test scores for a second straight year due to "adult testing irregularities," or, in other words, cheating. And not by students.
Haqq was once a Pasadena city councilman once known as Isaac Richard. He founded Uprep in 2001. The San Francisco Chronicle understated it when they said he was known for "breaking the rules." (Subhead: Arrests, fights and bare-knuckles politics among hallmarks of Isaac Haqq's history.)
As a Pasadena city councilman in the early 1990s, Isaac Haqq broke someone's nose, swiped campaign signs, threatened the housing chief, berated a women's shelter worker and did three years probation for, among other things, [an arrest for driving without a license] throwing his sunglasses at a bus.He was censured twice by the Pasadena City Council for "antisocial behavior." There were a half dozen other incidents.
Before his election, Haqq's sister got a temporary restraining order against him, alleging violence. After leaving office, he was arrested on suspicion of hitting a woman with a telephone.
See June 19 - Charter School Crackdown Continues
See June 21 - The Strange Past of Isaac Haaq
See July 2 - Ex-councilman faces accusations
Also see, July 8 - School mired in claims of cheating
TT - After he left Pasadena, he was an affirmative action consultant and a community college instructor teaching business and math.
In 1996, the Oakland School Board became a national laughingstock for their resolution calling for Ebonics. The school board regained some authority this month four years after the state took over the district for financial mismanagement. The state loaned the district $100 MILLION in 2003.
