{"id":906,"date":"2006-11-20T22:06:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-21T04:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/11\/legislators-share-views-on-diaz-firing\/"},"modified":"2006-11-20T22:06:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-21T04:06:00","slug":"legislators-share-views-on-diaz-firing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/11\/legislators-share-views-on-diaz-firing\/","title":{"rendered":"Legislators share views on Diaz firing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two legislators I spoke with were saddened by tonight\u2019s news that the Las Cruces school board fired Superintendent Sonia Diaz, but they weren\u2019t talking about bringing in the state to takeover operation of the district.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Rep. Mary Helen Garcia said the findings that led to the decision must have included \u201csubstantial evidence\u201d for the board to fire Diaz instead of buying out her contract.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was their responsibility to do what\u2019s necessary,\u201d Garcia said. \u201cIt\u2019s unfortunate for the children of the district to have to go through this, but hopefully they\u2019ll find the right person at the right time.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the meantime, Garcia said, she has full confidence that Elizabeth Marrufo, the administrator in charge of the district, can manage the situation.<\/p>\n

Garcia said the board\u2019s decision \u2013 clearly a tough one to make \u2013 demonstrated leadership, so the state does not need to come in and help stabilize the district.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Sen. Leonard \u201cLee\u201d Rawson said the community must be concerned about what has taken place.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy concern is that we haven\u2019t resolved the problem,\u201d he said. \u201cThe problem, from my perspective, is that the school board has made some bad decisions and now we\u2019ve lost another year.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said the board is either not giving clear direction to superintendents or doing a poor job of selecting them, but added that he\u2019s glad the board acted tonight, instead of delaying a decision.<\/p>\n

\u201cHopefully, the school board will learn from its mistakes, or what it perceives as mistakes,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two legislators I spoke with were saddened by tonight\u2019s news that the Las Cruces school board fired Superintendent Sonia Diaz, but they weren\u2019t talking about bringing in the state to takeover operation of the district. Rep. Mary Helen Garcia said the findings that led to the decision must have included \u201csubstantial evidence\u201d for the board […]<\/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-906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906","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=906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}