Former Santa Fe High School (SFHS) Assistant Principal David Rendek and SFHS Athletic Director Michele Faulk will remain suspended in the current school year, Alachua County Schools Communications Director Jackie Johnson told GnvInfo in an email. Johnson said Rendek was employed as an assistant principal with Buchholz High School at the time of his suspension.
Rendek and Faulk both were suspended on November 1, 2024, two days after attorney Bobi J. Frank filed a lawsuit on behalf of a parent against the City of Alachua and the Alachua County School Board (SBAC) alleging they, along with now-retired SFHS principal Timothy Wright, allowed the parent’s child, the victim, to be sexually harassed by SFHS baseball coach Travis Yeckring.
Yeckring hasn’t been criminally charged, but SFHS remains under federal investigation, and Rendek, Faulk and Wright have active sworn complaints filed by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE), but no warrants have been issued and the State Attorney’s Office hasn’t filed any charges…