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The settlement was presented behind closed doors in a special meeting Thursday, and the specifics were not disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>The school board voted to not renew the contracts of Mesa High School Principal Kirk Thomas and Athletic Director David Klecka for no official reason following allegations of mandatory reporting failures.<\/p>\n<p>Police were investigating if the two did not report a firearm on campus after a fight at a soccer game in February of last year.<\/p>\n<p>The community showed up at the last board meeting, accusing the district of mishandling the situation.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/tucsonmovingreport.com\/?p=426\">FBI offers $200K for info on Air Force intelligence specialist accused of spying for Iran<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thomas and Klecka\u2019s attorney argued that the mandatory reporting law did not go into effect until after the fight and claimed there was not a substantial threat of a gun on campus.<\/p>\n<p>Police submitted charges against Klecka and Thomas, but the county attorney later dropped those charges.<\/p>\n<p><i>See a spelling or grammatical error in our story? <\/i><i>Please click here to report it<\/i><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Do you have a photo or video of a breaking news story? Send <\/i><i>it to us here<\/i><i> with a brief description.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/tucsonmovingreport.com\/?p=424\">Arizona mom who used ESA vouchers now campaigns to reform program<\/a><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> The settlement was presented behind closed doors in a special meeting on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":429,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mesa school board settles with administrators accused of not reporting gun at soccer game - Tucson Moving Report<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/tucsonmovingreport.com\/?p=430\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mesa school board settles with administrators accused of not reporting gun at soccer game - 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