{"id":919,"date":"2006-11-27T03:22:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-27T09:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/11\/diaz-says-she-wont-appeal-firing\/"},"modified":"2006-11-27T03:22:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-27T09:22:00","slug":"diaz-says-she-wont-appeal-firing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/11\/diaz-says-she-wont-appeal-firing\/","title":{"rendered":"Diaz says she won&#8217;t appeal firing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/x\/blogger2\/6506\/2852\/1600\/324884\/Diaz%2C%20Sonia.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/x\/blogger2\/6506\/2852\/200\/696772\/Diaz%2C%20Sonia.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Sonia Diaz, who was fired last week from her job as superintendent of the Las Cruces Public Schools, told the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.connpost.com\/localnews\/ci_4703646\" target=\"_blank\">Connecticut Post<\/a> she won\u2019t appeal, though New Mexico law gives her 20 days to do that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve got a lot of options,\u201d the newspaper quoted Diaz as saying. She added that she doesn\u2019t know whether she\u2019ll be entitled to a severance package.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not thinking about that. I\u2019m looking ahead,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The newspaper reported on Diaz\u2019s firing because she was a controversial leader of the Bridgeport schools in Connecticut until that district\u2019s board let her go in 2004.<\/p>\n<p>Diaz, in the interview, called her firing \u201ca difference of style and opinions.\u201d She also told the newspaper that two men she brought to Las Cruces as part of a transition team, John Marsillio and Clarence Tolbert, won\u2019t stay in Las Cruces.<\/p>\n<p>Diaz has refused to speak with me or other area journalists on-the-record about her firing, so her interview with the Connecticut newspaper is the first since the Las Cruces school board made the decision last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sonia Diaz, who was fired last week from her job as superintendent of the Las Cruces Public Schools, told the Connecticut Post she won\u2019t appeal, though New Mexico law gives her 20 days to do that. \u201cI\u2019ve got a lot of options,\u201d the newspaper quoted Diaz as saying. She added that she doesn\u2019t know whether [&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-919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919","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=919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}