All Los Angeles Unified School District schools will stay closed today in response to a reported bomb threat, Schools Superintendent Ramon Cortines said.
The threat, which was not immediately detailed, was called in to a School Board member, and the closures apply to all LAUSD campuses, around 900 of them.
Cortines, describing “a rare threat,” told a news conference that he has ordered all campuses searched before the end of the day today.
Cortines said he ordered the closures because he was not going to take a chance given recent terror strikes in Paris and San Bernardino.
Board of Education President Steve Zimmer said the distrct was acting “out of an abundance of caution.”
