BALTIMORE COUNTY, MD (WBFF) — Years before Chizarra Dashiell denied her criminal history on an application to open a Baltimore County charter school, regulators in two jurisdictions had already found similar nondisclosures on her professional licensing applications.
Washington regulators found that Dashiell repeatedly failed to disclose her criminal history and practiced occupational therapy without a license, including providing services to about 30 students at Friendship Public Charter Schools. Maryland later revoked her occupational therapy assistant license here after finding she failed to disclose the Washington disciplinary charges.
Dashiell later denied having a criminal history and bankruptcies on an affidavit submitted with Puzzle Pieces Learning Academy’s application to Baltimore County Public Schools. Unlike the licensing regulators, BCPS did not conduct the background check Dashiell authorized before approving the charter.
“Unfortunately, the notion that people who have made mistakes get a clean slate once the debt to society has been satisfied is fictional. The result, regrettably, is that in an effort to survive, previous or sometimes more aggravated conduct follows,” Dashiell’s attorney and father, Robert Fulton Dashiell, said when asked to comment on the disciplinary documents from the boards.
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