Baltimore mayor silent on accusations that school vendor deliberately falsified records

Ruben Castaneda, The Baltimore Sun on Jan 14, 2026

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BALTIMORE — Mayor Brandon Scott declined to comment Tuesday on reports published in The Baltimore Sun that six former employees of Concentric Educational Solutions intentionally falsified records of the company’s tutoring and home visits for Baltimore City Public Schools between 2021 and 2024.

The Sun reported that Baltimore City Public Schools extended its contract with Concentric in June 2025, even after finding that the company had overbilled the school system and submitted dubious tutoring documentation.

Asked whether Scott plans to ask the state inspector general for education or the school district to conduct an investigation, a mayoral spokesman thanked The Sun for reaching out, adding, “We don’t have any comment at this time.”

One former employee told The Sun that Concentric encouraged workers to make the documentation “look the way it needed to look” to obtain funds from the school district. One former employee said they were pressured to forge student signatures to show students had received tutoring. Another said they observed other employees forging signatures.

Concentric was scheduled to receive at least $36.2 million from the Baltimore City Public School System from August 2020 to June 2026. The company operates nationwide.

In June, Baltimore City Public Schools extended its contract with Concentric Educational Solutions — even after finding that the company had overbilled the district and submitted suspicious tutoring documentation. The company said at the time that the mistakes were not intentional.

The Sun emailed or called each of the 15 members of the Baltimore City Council this week to ask whether they would be calling for an investigation into Concentric. As of Tuesday afternoon, none of the councilmembers had responded by deadline.

Concentric currently provides home visits to the school system to encourage absent students to return to the classroom. The company had been providing several other services to City Schools, which have been discontinued.

The Maryland Office of the Inspector General for Education could investigate Concentric if it received a complaint, said Inspector General Richard P. Henry. The office cannot initiate an investigation on its own, but anyone could contact the office and file a complaint, anonymously or otherwise, Henry told The Sun. Such complaints could be filed based on a published report, he said.

As of late Tuesday afternoon, the office had not received any complaints about Concentric, Henry told The Sun.

The OIGE has jurisdiction to investigate a wide array of misconduct, including criminal activity, civil fraud or waste, falsified or improper student enrollment reporting, falsified student records, and misuse of education funds.

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—Carson Swick contributed to this report.

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