News About seven weeks after putting her on paid administrative leave, Portland Public Schools this week fired Diana Fernandez, director of the district's department for teaching English as a second language.The change comes on the heels of a Nov. 30 decision by the Portland School Board to make wholesale reforms to the ESL department, which has been plagued by numerous state and federal findings of severe ...   More

News Three days after members of the Portland School Board issued one of their harshest assessments ever of a district program, the director of that program -- Diana Fernandez of the district's department of English as a second language -- is on paid administrative leave. The following email went out to Portland Public Schools principals this afternoon from Carla Randall, the district' chief academic ...   More