A high school principal in Alameda County has resigned as part of a settlement after a school district investigation found sufficient evidence that he used an online app to communicate with a former and current student about sex, once proposing a “secret school tryst,” public records show.

Thomas Peele

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Jonathan M. 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 disclos

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