Tim Donnelly, a Republican state lawmaker who is running for governor in 2014, has an idea. He wants to spend $500,000 of his campaign funds to find the state’s “worst” and “best” teachers, using the money to help remove the “worst” teacher and celebrate the “best teacher.” He’s predicting “thousands of people” will send in...

In this article, Huffington Post LA editor (and former South Central teacher) Kathleen Miles reminds us that it was the 1989 schoolyard shooting in Stockton that led to an earlier wave of measures to limit the proliferation of assault weapons.