{"id":905,"date":"2006-11-20T20:48:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-21T02:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/11\/breaking-news-board-votes-to-fire-diaz\/"},"modified":"2006-11-20T20:48:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-21T02:48:00","slug":"breaking-news-board-votes-to-fire-diaz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/11\/breaking-news-board-votes-to-fire-diaz\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING NEWS: Board votes to fire Diaz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/x\/blogger2\/6506\/2852\/1600\/458760\/Diaz%2C%20Sonia.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; CURSOR: pointer\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/x\/blogger2\/6506\/2852\/200\/666689\/Diaz%2C%20Sonia.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Members of the Las Cruces Public Schools Board of Education have voted unanimously to fire Superintendent Sonia Diaz.<\/p>\n<p>Diaz has 20 days to appeal once the board serves her with notice, which it has five days to do.<\/p>\n<p>Board members emerged from closed session at 7:30 p.m. with solemn faces before voting to fire Diaz after four months on the job.<\/p>\n<p>The reasons for the termination weren\u2019t disclosed because personnel law prevents it.<\/p>\n<p>The news was met by cheers from many of the approximately 50 people in attendance. Some employees of the district wept, and were comforted by others.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat I heard in closed session was grave enough for me to support a discharge,\u201d said board Member Leonel Brise\u00f1o.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps alluding to allegations that Diaz treated employees poorly and without respect, Brise\u00f1o then urged all in the community to allow the district to heal by treating each other \u201cwith respect and dignity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe must learn, as a district, to discuss our differences\u201d while upholding a commitment to treating each other with respect, Brise\u00f1o said.<\/p>\n<p>Board Member Gene Gant said the decision was painful.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis has been a very painful four months,\u201d Gant said.<\/p>\n<p>Board Members Chuck Davis and John Schwebke thanked district staff for continuing to work professionally through what Schwebke called \u201cthese trying times.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Board Member Sharon Wooden said she agreed with the comments of other board members.<\/p>\n<p>Elizabeth Marrufo remains the administrator in charge of the district for now.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m hoping to have comment from Diaz later tonight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the Las Cruces Public Schools Board of Education have voted unanimously to fire Superintendent Sonia Diaz. Diaz has 20 days to appeal once the board serves her with notice, which it has five days to do. Board members emerged from closed session at 7:30 p.m. with solemn faces before voting to fire Diaz [&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-905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905","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=905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}