Tuesday, March 13, 2018

Ex-Leader of Baltimore County Schools, a Tech Booster, Pleads Guilty to Perjury

A former superintendent of Baltimore County Public Schools, the 25th-largest district in the United States, pleaded guilty on Thursday to four counts of perjury related to payments totaling about $147,000 that he received for consulting and speaking engagements.
The state said the former superintendent, Shaun Dallas Dance, had made false statements on his financial disclosure forms “to conceal the nature and extent of his outside business interests and conflicts of interest.” Among other sources of income, the state said, Mr. Dance received payments from a school leadership training company that he had helped win an $875,000 no-bid contract from his school district.
After his financial relationship with that school vendor became known, the state said, Mr. Dance falsely told a Baltimore County Public Schools ethics panel that he had not been paid by the company while it was doing business with the district. He also provided the ethics panel with what the state described as a “sham” service agreement with the company supporting his false claims...

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  1. Regarding HB 677 see http://www.bethesdamagazine.com/Bethesda-Beat/2018/State-Legislation-To-Prevent-County-Held-Email-Addresses-From-Being-Released-Moves-Forward/

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