Debate emerges over different responses to threats in LA and NYC

He indicated he plans to have schools open Wednesday.

Yesterday, the nation’s second-largest school district abruptly shut down all 900 of its schools, keeping roughly twice the size of Iceland’s population in students home for the day in what is being called an “unprecedented move”.

He added, “We need the cooperation of the whole of Los Angeles today”.

“We have suffered too many school shootings in America to ignore these kinds of threats”, Chief Charlie Beck said at a news conference. But California officialdom – both in the law enforcement and political communities – erected a solid front in support of the 83-year-old Cortines, who is due to retire next year, as he’s done once before.

The threat, emailed late on Monday night, came from someone who claimed to be a devout Muslim prepared to launch an attack at multiple schools using bombs, nerve gas and rifles, Brad Sherman, a Democratic U.S. congressman from California, told the New York Times. “Because our government refuses even to recognize the problem, a mere email can now shut down a major American city’s schools”.

The Times noted that the charter school is not part of the Los Angeles Unified School District but made a decision to close Tuesday morning because it was near LAUSD schools.

Other states that have seen recent proposals to increase penalties include New York, Pennsylvania and Maine.

“Tonight we received a threat of violence similar to those received this week by districts across the nation including Los Angeles, New York and Miami”.

He also said, “I want every school, every early education center, every adult school searched”. Schools reopened Wednesday after the Federal Bureau of Investigation concluded it wasn’t credible, according to Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti.

The message also said the person boasted of having “32 accomplices… all ready to take action today”, Sherman said, however cautioning that some of the claims lacked credibility.

“I’m not going to take the chance with the life of a student”, said Cortines, who runs the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD).

Class was to be held as normal on Thursday for its 213,000 students, the district said. Los Angeles is just an hour away from San Bernardino, where a radicalized couple killed 14 people in a gun massacre December 2.

“I think it’s irresponsible to criticize that decision at this point”.

“As we were kids growing up – I’m 51 – we always had the notion that it was a childish prank”, said Hwang, a Republican.

“For most of 2015, the country’s mood, and thus the presidential election, was defined by anger and the unevenness of the economic recovery”, said Democratic pollster Fred Yang, who conducted the survey with Republican pollster Bill McInturff.

Other parents used social media to vent frustration at having learned about the closures from the news media, rather than directly from the schools.

School district spokeswoman Ellen Morgan announced the closure Tuesday but released no further details ahead of a press conference at district headquarters.

The sudden closure disrupted the routines of many Los Angeles families.