The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) shut down more than 1,500 school buildings and told more than 655,000 students to stay home Tuesday over a threat of violence.
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Just as NY officials were determining the e-mail to be a hoax and deciding to keep schools operating as usual, Los Angeles schools chancellor, Ramon C. Cortines was sending a text to parents directing them to keep their children home as authorities searched through the district’s schools.
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Meanwhile, in New York City, officials say they received a similar e-mail threat, but they concluded it was not credible, The New York Times reports.
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Returning high school students found themselves thrown back into the throes of final exams as the semester ended, with police providing a stepped up presence at campuses to reassure those left jittery by the unprecedented shutdown.
School police said the FBI was notified of the LAUSD threat, which the federal agency analyzed. LA reacted by shutting down the entire district, while NY… Additional resources have been deployed to schools and a normal school day is expected tomorrow (Thursday).
“As we were kids growing up – I’m 51 – we always had the notion that it was a childish prank”, said Hwang, a Republican. “I want to reassure students, parents, guardians, teachers and other employees that our schools are safe”, LAUSD Chief Deputy Superintendent Michelle King said.
Regardless, the mass closure means the school district could be shorted millions of dollars in state funding.
EARLIER: All schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District have been closed Tuesday after the district received “a credible threat”.
Yet it took until 8:15 a.m. for a district-wide robocall to go out, and it took until around 9:30 a.m. for the LAUSD’s website to feature a pop-up saying all schools were closed, notes the Times.
LOS ANGELES (AP) – When it comes to assessing threats, schools in New York City and Los Angeles likely have more experience than most other districts in the country.
However, Mayor Eric Garcetti and Beck responded to Bratton stating they respected the superintendent’s decision as limited information was available yesterday morning.
In addition, both emails claimed to be written by students of the districts they were threatening, but the NY message had terminology that would not be used by someone familiar with that school system, Sherman said.
The writer, who described high school as “absolute hell”, said gunpowder had been loaded into pressure cooker bombs hidden at unspecified campuses, along with “nerve agents”.
Authorities in NY reported receiving the same “generic” 360-word email and decided there was no danger to schoolchildren.
In Los Angeles’s case, the answer seems to have been influenced heavily by the December 2 terror attack in nearby San Bernardino, Calif. Call it the “Brussels effect”.
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But Dr. Lieberman, out and about in Los Angeles Tuesday, says she understands the quick reactions by public school officials.
