{"id":179487,"date":"2018-01-23T21:10:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-24T02:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/01\/23\/a-sordid-chapter-in-a-tawdry-tale\/"},"modified":"2018-01-23T21:10:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-24T02:10:00","slug":"a-sordid-chapter-in-a-tawdry-tale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/01\/23\/a-sordid-chapter-in-a-tawdry-tale\/","title":{"rendered":"A Sordid Chapter in a Tawdry Tale"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 330px;\">\n<blockquote data-lang=\"en\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Dallas Dance is growing up so fast. Seems like it was just last year that he was finishing up with education, and now he&#8217;s already on his way to prison.<\/div>\n<p>\u2014 Charles E Saroff (@W4t3rf1r3) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/W4t3rf1r3\/status\/956017031748472832?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 24, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><i>My son was never a fan of his<\/i><\/div>\n<p>Former Baltimore County superintendent Dallas Dance <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/news\/maryland\/education\/k-12\/bs-md-co-dallas-dance-20180122-story.html\">has been indicted for perjury<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He was appointed superintendent in 2012, and required a waiver for this, because he did not meet the statutory requirements, then he dumped lots of money into unsuccessful whiz bang and consultants, and finally, he paid lots of money to high dollar consultants through no bid contracts.<\/p>\n<p>It turns out that these consultants also paid his company for consulting, something he neglected to mention on his disclosure forms, hence the perjury charges:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Former Baltimore County school superintendent Dallas Dance was indicted Tuesday on four counts of perjury for failing to disclose nearly $147,000 in pay he received for private consulting with several companies and school districts beginning in 2012, the Maryland State Prosecutor announced.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/news\/maryland\/education\/k-12\/bs-md-dallas-dance-document-20180123-htmlstory.html\">The four-count indictment <\/a>handed down by a Baltimore County grand jury alleges the former superintendent falsely stated on financial disclosure forms filed with the county school district that he earned no additional income personally or through his consulting company, Deliberate Excellence, in 2012, 2013 and 2015.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The charges allege he negotiated a no-bid contract between the school system and Chicago-based SUPES Academy in 2012 while he was earning approximately $90,000 from the company without telling the school system.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cParents of Baltimore County Public School students should be able to trust that their Superintendent of Schools is carrying out his duties, honestly, with transparency and in the best interest of the students and the schools,\u201d state Prosecutor Emmet C. Davitt said Tuesday. \u201cAny violation of that trust is intolerable.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dallas Dance is growing up so fast. Seems like it was just last year that he was finishing up with education, and now he&#8217;s already on his way to prison. \u2014 Charles E Saroff (@W4t3rf1r3) January 24, 2018 My son was never a fan of his Former Baltimore County superintendent Dallas Dance has been indicted &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[368,435,397,407],"class_list":["post-179487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-corruption","tag-crimes","tag-education","tag-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179487"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}