White House plan includes gun training for teachers

By JILL COLVIN
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s plan to combat school shootings will include helping states pay for firearms training for teachers and a call to improve the background check system.
But Trump’s plan will not include a push to increase the minimum age for purchasing assault weapons or an embrace of more comprehensive background checks, as Trump has at times advocated.
Instead, a new federal commission on school safety will examine the age issue, as well as a