Former Baltimore County Schools Leader Charged With Perjury
- 7 years ago
Former Baltimore County Schools Leader Charged With Perjury
The state said the former superintendent, Shaun Dallas Dance, made false statements on his financial disclosure forms “to conceal the nature
and extent of his outside business interests and conflicts of interest.”
Mr. Dance has been at the center of questions about the close relationships between Baltimore County school officials
and education technology companies, which have been trying to win the district’s business.
The prosecutor also said that Mr. Dance concealed about $12,000 in payments he received through his consulting work in 2015, including $4,600 from an organization called the Education Research and Development Institute — ERDI for short —
that pays superintendents to attend meetings with educational tech companies.
Mr. Dance actively negotiated the terms of a $875,000 no-bid contract between his school district
and Supes Academy, a school leadership training service, while he worked for Supes and a related company called Synesi, according to the indictment.
Mr. Dance also made false statements on financial disclosure documents, the
indictment said, to conceal about $90,000 in earnings from those companies.
The former superintendent of Baltimore County Public Schools, the 25th largest district in the United
States, was charged with four counts of perjury by the Maryland state prosecutor on Tuesday.
The state said the former superintendent, Shaun Dallas Dance, made false statements on his financial disclosure forms “to conceal the nature
and extent of his outside business interests and conflicts of interest.”
Mr. Dance has been at the center of questions about the close relationships between Baltimore County school officials
and education technology companies, which have been trying to win the district’s business.
The prosecutor also said that Mr. Dance concealed about $12,000 in payments he received through his consulting work in 2015, including $4,600 from an organization called the Education Research and Development Institute — ERDI for short —
that pays superintendents to attend meetings with educational tech companies.
Mr. Dance actively negotiated the terms of a $875,000 no-bid contract between his school district
and Supes Academy, a school leadership training service, while he worked for Supes and a related company called Synesi, according to the indictment.
Mr. Dance also made false statements on financial disclosure documents, the
indictment said, to conceal about $90,000 in earnings from those companies.
The former superintendent of Baltimore County Public Schools, the 25th largest district in the United
States, was charged with four counts of perjury by the Maryland state prosecutor on Tuesday.