(UPDATED, 8:24 a.m. Tuesday, with additional details from the Boise School District.)
The Boise School District and Valley View Elementary School have offered a new settlement of nearly $300,000 to two parents.
This offer falls within the $7 million in sexual abuse settlements the Boise district announced last month, a district spokesman said Tuesday morning. However, the district refuses to say whether this offer relates to Gavin Snow, a former special education assistant at Valley View.
On Wednesday, an attorney for the district filed a motion in Ada County District Court to create a trust on behalf of a Valley View student with a disability. The motion does not mention Snow by name, but says the child was the victim of “conduct committed by an agent and employee of Valley View Elementary School and the Boise School District.”
The conduct occurred during the 2024-25 school year.
Snow worked at Valley View for part of 2024-25. Snow died by suicide in January, taking his life as Boise police tried to arrest him on child sexual abuse charges.
According to Wednesday’s motion, the district and Valley View have offered a $295,000 settlement. After legal fees, $292,000 would go into a trust on the child’s behalf.
“The petitioners believe and state that this settlement with Boise School District and Valley View Elementary is in the best interests of the minor child,” according to the motion from the district’s attorney, James Stoll of Boise.
As part of the settlement, which still requires court approval, the parents will not seek further claims against the district or school.
The Boise district has said the $7 million settlements close all parents’ tort claims involving Snow. The district did not receive a tort claim related to last week’s court filing, spokesman Dan Hollar said Friday.
Hollar confirmed Tuesday morning that the $295,000 offer is part of the $7 million in settlements. But he would not say the offer is connected to Snow.
“The details of settlement negotiations are not subject to public records requests, outside of statistical data and amounts of settlements paid out,” Hollar said in an email Monday afternoon.
Stoll did not respond to a voicemail and email from EdNews Friday.
