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All Los Angeles Unified School District Schools Closed Due To Reported Bomb Threat

LAUSDLogoAll Los Angeles Unified School District schools will stay closed today in response to a reported bomb threat, Schools Superintendent Ramon Cortines said.

The closures applied to all LAUSD campuses, more than 900 of them. The district, the nation’s second biggest, serves more than 700,000 students

School officials told parents to keep their kids home and retrieve those already taken to school, meeting them at the campuses’ reunion gates. Students will be supervised until they are picked up, officials said.

Board of Education President Steve Zimmer said the district was acting “out of an abundance of caution.” He urged parents to negotiate time off to be with kids and employers to show maximum flexibility.

Cortines told a news conference he has ordered all campuses searched today, which promised to require a colossal effort involving a multitude of agencies.

“I want every school searched, to make sure that it is safe for children and safe for staff to be there on Wednesday,” Cortines said. “I will issue a statement late this afternoon after the (school police) chief, Chief (Steve) Zipperman has informed me that the schools have been searched, and it is OK.”

Zipperman also spoke at the hastily arranged news conference at school district headquarters.

“Earlier this morning, we did receive an electronic threat that mentioned the safety of our schools,”  Zipperman said. “As a result of that threat, the Los Angeles School Police Department, as well as the Los Angeles Police Department and the FBI were notified, and right now, the threat is still being analyzed. In an abundance of caution, as Superintendent Cortines has indicated, we have chosen to close our schools today until we can be absolutely sure that our campuses are safe.”

Cortines said he wants administrators to work with law enforcement to make a plan to search the campuses and facilities today and report back to him. The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department was assisting in the effort to search schools.

He said parents have been asked to pick up their students, and he vowed that “no child will be left alone.”

Cortines said he ordered the closures because he was not going to take a chance given recent terror strikes in Paris and San Bernardino.

“I think its important to take this precaution based on what has happened recently and what has happened in the past, he said, speaking less than two weeks after a couple — a U.S. citizen of Pakistani background and his Pakistani wife — killed 14 people in San Bernardino in the deadliest terror strike on U.S soil since 9/11.”

The closures came on a day when finals were scheduled at high schools, leading some students to speculate that a student fearing exams was involved, according to broadcast reports.

Some other school districts issued preliminary information as follows:

— In Torrance, officials reported that schools in that city would be open.

— All Hawthorne schools will be open today, except for Cimarron Elementary School, which is part of LAUSD, Hawthorne police reported.

— In Gardena, only LAUSD schools will be closed today. Other campuses will be open.

— All Palos Verdes Unified School District schools will be open today.

— All Diamond Bar, Walnut, Culver City and Rowland Heights area public schools are open today.

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