Reuters quoted an anonymous law enforcement source, who told the news agency that Los Angeles authorities failed to consult with the Federal Bureau of Investigation – which normally takes the lead in domestic terrorism cases – before canceling classes to allow a school-by-school search.
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“When parents make their determination about the decisions that were made today”, he said, “I would ask them to look at it this way: If you knew what the superintendent and the school board knew at 5:30 this morning, when the decision had to be made, would you have sent your child to school?”
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The contents on the email were revealed after the nation’s second-largest school district shut down Tuesday after school board members received the threat that raised fears of another attack like the deadly shooting in nearby San Bernardino, California. The threat named every Los Angeles United School District ( LAUSD) school and said that explosives had already been planted, according to Beck.
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With the San Bernardino attack so fresh, school officials “did what they were supposed to do”, Vasquez said.
One of the things that concerned LA authorities was that the author used the district’s full name, showing a familiarity with the school system.
“There was nothing credible about the threat”.
Officials in the city have been accused of over-reacting by deciding to close every school in the district on Tuesday, displacing 643,000 students and their parents in the process.
The threat, the NY officials said, came in the form of a “generic” email to many cities around the country.
In New York, officials made a decision to ignore a similar warning, keeping its schools open. New York Mayor Bill de Blasio said: “It’s important – very important – not to overreact in situations like this”.
A police officer talks on his radio outside Mark Twain Middle School in Los Angeles, California Dece …
“As we were kids growing up – I’m 51 – we always had the notion that it was a childish prank”, said Hwang, a Republican.
Tiffany Miles, a parent of an LAUSD student, said the district’s reaction was appropriate, but also said she didn’t receive a robocall form the district until 10:50 a.m. on Tuesday. She said she received four robocalls over the day.
“It is very easy in hindsight to criticize the decision based on results that the decider could never have known”, Beck said.
Also, the Dallas Independent School District announced on its website that schools were opening Thursday after an emailed threat sent to several school district staff and teachers at Pinkston High School and Martinez Elementary School was deemed non-credible.
Students arrive at the Ramon C. Cortines School of Visual and Performing Arts in downtown Los Angeles on Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2015.
White House spokesman Josh Earnest said he would not second-guess the decisions made in Los Angeles or NY.
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Los Angeles local CBS television news reported that the closure cost the school district a whopping $29 million at a time when education across the state continues to struggle with budget cuts.
