Fey, 54, who worked at Amador Valley High School in the Pleasanton Unified School District since 2022, was notified Feb. 28 that he was being fired following months on administrative leave. He appealed to an administrative law judge before accepting a $254,000 settlement last week that includes legal fees and back pay.
“The allegations made against me are false,” Fey said in a written statement issued by a San Jose public relations firm.
Fey’s settlement and disclosure of the district’s investigative findings come at a time when California school districts are facing a reckoning from lawsuits brought under a state law allowing victims to sue for alleged assaults that in some cases date back to the 1960s and 1970s.
Rough estimations have found that the cost to school districts in monetary awards could reach $4 billion in these cases that benefit from the lifting or expansion of the statute of limitations. It was not immediately clear if any lawsuits had been filed involving Fey. He taught in the Fremont Union High School District and the Mt. Diablo Unified School District before being hired in Pleasanton.
EdSource and the Pleasanton Weekly both filed a public records request seeking information about Fey’s employment status and the investigation.
In an unsigned statement included in the release of the Fey report, district officials wrote that it is their “sincere hope that the district’s prompt actions in response to these allegations, and Mr. Fey’s separation from the district, will bring closure to all those involved.”
Parents who have any concerns about their children or are aware that they have “been subjected to inappropriate conduct” by Fey are urged to make reports to the Pleasanton police.
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