“Former Baltimore County Public Schools (BCPS) Superintendent S. Dallas Dance accepted payment from a firm that also later did business with the district for a job the school system did not competitively bid, and which appears to run afoul of district procurement policies. The vendor payment is one of two known incidents that occurred during Dance’s employment with the school system from 2012 -2017.
Records show that Dance worked as a consultant for the American Institutes for Research in 2015 and was paid $1,500 for the job. Then, in the spring of 2017, Baltimore County’s education board approved a no-bid $750,000 contract, piggybacking on an unrelated agreement Chicago Public Schools (CPS) had with the vendor. In the first instance, Dance accepted payments from education consulting company, SUPES Academy, for consultant work he did in 2013.”
Read more in this February 8th article from the Baltimore Post: Another Questionable No-bid Contract in Dance’s Wake
And this related article — “Baltimore County schools awarded contract to group that had paid Dallas Dance” — from the February 8th Baltimore Sun.
“The Baltimore County school system last year awarded two contracts worth $1.5 million to a research organization that had previously paid former superintendent Dallas Dance as a consultant, records show. Dance did not disclose to the county that he had worked for the research organization, American Institutes for Research, as is required. His $1,500 payment by the company for consulting work in 2015 is detailed in last month’s indictment of Dance by a Baltimore County grand jury.”
Read more here.
