http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/12/15/credible-terror-threat-prompts-closure-all-la-public-schools/?intcmp=hpbt1Published December 15, 2015FoxNews.com
DEVELOPING: All of Los Angeles' public schools were closed Tuesday due to a "credible terror threat," officials said.
A member of the LA Unified School District Board of Education reported receiving a bomb threat, police said. It was unclear when the threat was made and which school board member received it, but the situation prompted the district to close all schools effective immediately, and order students and staff to stay away from all campuses.
Schools Superintendent Ramon Cortines said every school in the 700,000-pupil district would be searched. The district includes 1,124 schools plus other facilities, including ones for adult language instruction.
"I think it is important that I take this precaution based upon what has happened recently and what has happened in the past," Cortines said.
Police and the FBI were investigating the threat, which was described as "electronic."
It was not to one school, two schools or three schools, but to many schools," Cortines said. "It was 'to students at school.'"
The announcement comes less than two weeks after a terror attack in San Bernardino, some 50 miles to the east, left 14 dead and 21 wounded.
