Dallas schools receive terror threats

The Miami-Dade County Public Schools and Houston Independent School District announced on their websites that “less-than-credible” threats were received late Wednesday evening. The threat said armed jihadi fighters would storm the schools.

In Illinois, Plainfield Community Consolidated School District 202 also was alerted about the same threat.

In Miami, school district police immediately contacted law enforcement agencies and chose to open schools.

In a National School Safety and Security Services study based on media reports released in February, the group found school threats had increased by 158% from August to December 2014 compared with the year before.

San Francisco schools announced on Thursday it received a threat overnight similar to the one that shut down public schools in Los Angeles earlier this week.

School officials in multiple districts have said the threats all appear to be similar. All schools have been inspected and nothing suspicious was found. The district is open for normal business today.

Plainfield – The high school and elementary school were placed on lockdown Thursday morning after a threat was directed to a Plainfield high school, which turned out to be in another state, police said.

The district quickly canceled classes. The initial threat centered around one student but promised a “bloodbath” at the school.

Classes in the Danville district, which has roughly 2,500 students and is about 20 miles west of Indianapolis, will resume as scheduled on January 4.

Finding nothing out of the ordinary, classes started on time Thursday. Then, a 17-year-old sophomore, after learning of the freshman’s arrest, posted a threat on Facebook saying, “You can’t stop us all”, Wright said.

Districts in Dallas and Houston and another near the Mexican border reported receiving threats, though none has been deemed credible.

Authorities in all areas were still investigating as of Thursday afternoon.

The terror threat is now part of an ongoing investigation.

The district has 356 campuses and more than 320,000 students.

The latest threats singled out San Francisco, Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Houston and Dallas.

Law enforcement officers were making sweeps of schools in Houston to ensure student safety.

Farris was sending a message to parents and staff on Thursday morning about the situation.