The 362-word email that prompted Superintendent Ramon Cortines to close down every school in the district on Tuesday has been obtained and released by ABC7. Rep. Brad Sherman and other leaders in California and New York were among those who analyzed the contents and pointed out numerous passages indicating that the author’s threats were not credible....

By James King and Gilad Shiloach ISIS supporters took to social media to gloat about the disruption caused by “credible” bomb threats made against the Los Angeles school system on Tuesday. The threats closed more than 900 schools across the city, abruptly sending hundreds of thousands of students home and throwing the city into disarray. Within minutes...

Handling of L.A. schools shutdown offers a civics lesson Garcetti’s seemingly innocuous statement underscored the jurisdictional divisions that marked L.A. government’s response to the threat. Los Angeles Times, by Peter Jamison and Howard Blume LAUSD works to close two Porter Ranch schools over gas leak The Board of Education is scheduled to consider a proposal...

By Adam Nagourney, Richard Pérez-Peña and J. David Goodman The nation’s two largest school systems confronted threats of a terrorist attack on Tuesday and reacted in sharply different ways: New York City reviewed the warning and dismissed it as a hoax, but officials here abruptly shut down all public schools, upending the lives of parents, students...

The email that shut down LA schools came from an ‘Internet meme sewer’ It’s been traced back to a barebones email server that hosts thousands of accounts. Huffington Post, by Ryan Grenoble Parents, teachers grapple to explain Los Angeles school threat The Los Angeles Unified School District will offer counseling to students when they return...

Rep. Adam Schiff, a Democrat and ranking member of the House intelligence committee whose district includes many LA Unified schools, said today a “preliminary assessment” of the emailed threat prompting the closure of all district schools today was a hoax. In a statement, he said, “While we continue to gather information about the threat made against the...

A 17-year old male student at Los Angeles International Charter High School in Highland Park was struck and killed by a truck this morning as he was crossing a street near the school. The death occurred after the LA Unified school district decided to close all its campuses this morning due to a threat of violence,...

The LA Unified school district made the rare move today of closing all of its campuses after receiving a terror threat. Superintendent Ramon Cortines has asked for police to search every building — a major operation considering the district has over 1,100 campuses. The move also comes as New York officials said they received a...

By Josh Dulaney Lawmakers and academics met Monday at Cal State Long Beach to discuss helping English-learner students in the state get a high school diploma and go on to college. The Assembly Education Committee convened in the CSULB Student Union to learn more about roughly 1.4 million English learners who make up 22 percent of...