Kevin de León, September 2015. Photo by Max Whittaker for CALmatters

In summary

Candidates for superintendent of public instruction tangled over prison officers’ pay. Marshall Tuck said Tony Thurmond should not have voted to raise correctional officers’ pay by 5 percent, at a cost of more than $114 million.

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Dan Morain joined CalMatters in March 2018. He is the former editorial page editor of The Sacramento Bee. Morain also spent 27 years at The Los Angeles Times, and has covered the Capitol since 1992.