Latest on school threats: Details from Houston

According to employees of CCSD, who refused to name themselves when contacted by the MLN, the CCSD staff consulted with special Local Threat experts and Crisis Response Teams as well as multiple law enforcement agencies, who ultimately deemed the email as non-credible.

“Parents are encouraged to send their children to their regularly scheduled classes”, the district said.

The Ellensburg School District was one of a number of school districts nationwide that received threat similar to ones received by the Los Angeles and New York City school districts earlier this week.

Police in Danville held a press conference at the school and said who ever is making threats to school, “Get ready to go to jail”.

He also tweeted out a picture suggesting that there is a greater presence of police and vigilance at Miami-Dade Schools.

A spokesperson for Plainfield Community School Corporation told 24 Hour News 8 in an email that is it still too soon to think about how they’re going to address the threats with students in January. Los Angeles Unified leaders, put on defense by those remarks, said they would not have felt comfortable opening the district’s schools given the recent mass shootings in San Bernardino, Calif., which seem to have been inspired by ISIS.

Two school districts west of Indianapolis canceled Thursday classes after officials said threats were made against their schools. Jenkins says principals in the nation’s 10th largest school district have been asked to stay alert and keep students calm.

Closing a school or even a district to respond to a security threat is not completely unheard of, but its rare to see school systems of this size respond to such issues in such a public and conflicting manner.

Officials say bomb-sniffing dogs were brought to both schools.

This story was updated with the time when Long Beach Unified School District received threat, and the reported threats in Las Vegas and suburban Indianapolis.

Janette Sainz, a 38-year-old mother of a special needs student, said she’s thankful her son’s classes aren’t in session at Bobbie Smith Elementary School.

“The district was able to trace the email to the same server that was used in the hoax that occurred in NY and California earlier this week”.

And, in Plainfield, police said the agency received information late Wednesday night about social media postings, which directly mentioned Plainfield High School students.

Police and the FBI are investigating after authorities say someone made threats to Plainfield High School and Danville High School.

Wright said they began an investigation, and arrested first, a freshman Danville student Wednesday evening. For their part, many L.A. parents say they do not fault the district for excess caution with students’ lives.