Former Las Cruces Public Schools Superintendent Sonia Diaz, who is still appealing her firing in district court, has been given a top job at one of the nation’s largest school districts.
The Baltimore County Board of Education in
She will direct the division of curriculum and instruction for the district’s 169 schools, which serve 106,000 students, according to a news release from the district, which is the 24th largest in the nation.
“In adding Dr. Diaz to my administrative team, I am bringing to our school system an individual with more than 30 years experience in K-12 education,” Baltimore Superintendent Joe Hairston said in the release. “Dr. Diaz has demonstrated the capacity to address the types of challenges and opportunities we face in delivering quality curriculum to our children in
Diaz will begin her job April 1. The news release’s only mention of Diaz’s tenure in
Diaz was fired last year following a school board investigation into a host of allegations involving her treatment of district employees. She appealed to the board, which denied her request in January, and is now going through a private arbitration process in court that won’t end with her getting her job back but has the potential to end with a monetary settlement.