county office only receives notice of the suspension, but not the circumstances surrounding it.

It is against the law for public schools to pay certified staff who do not have a valid credential, he said, adding that his office did not learn about the suspension until the last week of March when the administration was testing out a new program by running a credentials check.

Eureka City Schools Superintendent Gregg Haulk said the suspension is a separate matter from the school's current search for a new principal for the next school year. Pawlick was hired in August 2008, just weeks before the school year began. His contract is set to expire June 30.

Haulk said he cannot discuss details regarding personnel matters, but he is under the impression that Pawlick's suspensionOfficial blog of the Greater Sacramento Progressive Alliance, one of the largest and most vibrant progressive activist groups in California with more than 7,000 members. We mobilize Progressives in Sacramento, the surrounding foothill areas, and at Sac State and Folsom Lake College.

Sunday, February 27, 2011

King’s Fight For Unions Is Still Essential

Union members of the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Local 1733 gather in Memphis to protest unfair labor practices in 1976. Photo: Robert Abbott Sengstacke/Getty Images

In light of the clash of wills in Wisconsin, we should remember the teachings of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. One of King’s slogans that we rarely hear is this one: “all labor has dignity.”

King spoke these words in Memphis on March 18, 1968, in the midst of a