Washingtonpost.com:
All Los Angeles Unified School District schools have been ordered closed Tuesday due to a “credible threat” of violence to students at numerous schools in the sprawling district, and a schools official confirmed that it was a bomb threat to the school district.
Los Angeles Unified is the nation’s second-largest school district, with more than 900 campuses and more than 640,000 students. Ramon Cortines, the school system’s superintendent, said the threat was against students at multiple schools. LAUSD spokeswoman Monica Carazo confirmed that it was a bomb threat.
“It was not to one school, two schools or three schools, it was many schools, not specifically identified, but there were many schools,” Cortines said. “That’s the reason that I took the action that I did.”
This behavior could make for a long school year. If it works once and there is no threat, then what happens? Closing down a school system with 600,000 students must be the worst nightmare in the world. Do they do it every time a threat is called in?
My understanding is that the threat was electronically communicated to one school board member in particular. I think the story is changing. New York is also on high alert.
TV says the “threat is being analyzed,” whatever that means.
