The Boulder Valley school board voted unanimously at a special meeting Wednesday to fire a sixth-grade math teacher accused of inappropriately touching students.

The vote to dismiss Manhattan Middle School teacher Daniel Greenberg, 56, followed a closed-door session to receive legal advice. Board members didn’t comment before the vote.

Superintendent Rob Anderson first recommended Greenberg’s dismissal last month. Greenberg, through the Colorado Education Association’s staff attorney, then contested the dismissal and requested a hearing. But, according to Boulder Valley legal counsel Katherine Sullivan, Colorado law allows the school board to fire him without a hearing because he was convicted of child abuse.

According to an arrest affidavit, an investigation found that Greenberg was involved in numerous non-consensual acts of inappropriate touching of male and female students. Greenberg had been with Boulder Valley since 2001 and at Boulder’s Manhattan Middle since 2019, according to the district.

Greenberg, who had been on paid administrative leave from March 2024 until recently, initially was charged with sexual assault of a child in a position of trust — victim under 15; 10 counts of child abuse — knowingly or recklessly cause bodily injury; and 10 counts of harassment.

However, after pleading guilty to one count of child abuse and one count of harassment April 18, Greenberg was sentenced to a year and six months of probation and six months of work release, according to court records. Upon pleading guilty, his remaining charges were dismissed. Work release is typically when an incarcerated person stays the night in a supervised facility and leaves during the day to go to work in the community.

Conditions of the plea agreement include surrendering his teaching license and agreeing not to teach or coach, even on a voluntary basis, according to the school district.

Despite pleading guilty, according to the district, he refused to resign or otherwise acknowledge that he wouldn’t teach again and asked to be paid through June. Boulder Valley rejected that request and moved forward with firing him.