Sonia Diaz, who was fired from her job as superintendent of Las Cruces schools in 2006 after just four months on the job, is no longer with the Baltimore County public schools, where she was hired in March 2007, the Las Cruces Sun-News reported.

According to a report in the Baltimore Sun on Tuesday, a Baltimore schools spokeswoman said Diaz was "no longer with the school system," the Sun-News reported.

The spokeswoman told the Sun she didn't know whether Diaz had a contract with the school system or when she had worked her last day and didn't otherwise elaborate.

And Diaz, reached by phone on Monday, wouldn't discuss her employment status with the Sun. 

After leaving Las Cruces, Diaz was hired in Baltimore as associate superintendent of curriculum and instruction, and her title was later changed to chief academic officer, according to the Sun-News.

Diaz, who began her educational career as an elementary school teacher in Boston in 1973, did not return the Sun-News' phone calls for comment.

She was hired in 2006 as Las Cruces' fifth superintendent in as many years, recruited at a cost of $48,000, the Sun-News reported.

Last October, independent arbitration found that the Las Cruces Public Schools board of education was justified in dismissing Diaz after her management skills and spending habits were called into question, the Sun-News said.

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