{"id":848,"date":"2006-11-08T11:28:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-08T17:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/11\/breaking-news-superintendent-placed-on-leave-legislators-may-ask-state-to-take-over-lcps\/"},"modified":"2006-11-08T11:28:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-08T17:28:00","slug":"breaking-news-superintendent-placed-on-leave-legislators-may-ask-state-to-take-over-lcps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/11\/breaking-news-superintendent-placed-on-leave-legislators-may-ask-state-to-take-over-lcps\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING NEWS: Superintendent placed on leave; legislators may ask state to take over LCPS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5892\/2386\/1600\/Diaz%2C%20Sonia.14.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5892\/2386\/200\/Diaz%2C%20Sonia.14.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Las Cruces Public Schools Superintendent Sonia Diaz was placed on administrative leave by the school board Tuesday night, and the <st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:placename st=\"on\">Do\u00f1a<\/st1:placename> <st1:placename st=\"on\">Ana<\/st1:placename>  <st1:placename st=\"on\">County<\/st1:placename><\/st1:place> legislative delegation is considering asking the state to take over the school district.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">School Board member Leonel Brise\u00f1o will make a public statement at 1 p.m. at the administration building, <st1:street st=\"on\"><st1:address st=\"on\">505 South Main Street<\/st1:address><\/st1:street>. Until then, the district will make no comment, said spokeswoman Jo Galvan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The county\u2019s legislators had a previously scheduled meeting with the board this morning to discuss legislative priorities. State Rep. Joseph Cervantes, D-Las Cruces, said that, after the meeting, legislators met with Board President Sharon Wooden and member John Schwebke to discuss rumors that Diaz was placed on administrative leave.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The board placed Diaz on leave following a closed-door meeting that lasted several hours and ended just before 11 p.m. Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Cervantes and other legislators are about to meet with Diaz.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cOur intention is to, in all likelihood, ask the state to take over the school district,\u201d Cervantes said, because of \u201cthe general lack of confidence in the board\u201d and \u201ca lack of stability in the district.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Cervantes said all legislators present at the meeting \u2013 Democrat and Republican \u2013 expressed \u201cunanimous support\u201d for Diaz \u201cand her efforts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Diaz was hired four months ago and has made quick changes in top-level administration. She is considering many other, major changes that have many in the district worried. Others say it\u2019s about time someone cleans up the district.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The district has a history of turmoil. Two of the last four superintendents have left under clouds of scandal, and two school board members were recalled in 2002.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">I couldn\u2019t reach Diaz or school board members for comment. I\u2019ll have much more later today. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Las Cruces Public Schools Superintendent Sonia Diaz was placed on administrative leave by the school board Tuesday night, and the Do\u00f1a Ana County legislative delegation is considering asking the state to take over the school district. School Board member Leonel Brise\u00f1o will make a public statement at 1 p.m. at the administration building, 505 South [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}