The school district had been headed for trial in Santa Clara County Superior Court Nov. 7 in the civil action brought by two men sexually assaulted as students, in 2020, and in 2008-2009. 

The Los Gatos High School Union High School District settled a sex abuse suit for nearly $3.5 million, and the Los Gatos Elementary Union School District faces a November trial in another sex abuse lawsuit.

Joseph Houg, a 50-year-old theater and elementary school teacher, is being held at the Santa Clara County Main Jail on $100,000 bail.