Was Email that shut down L.A. Schools a Hoax or a Probe?

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by TONI WILLIAMS on DECEMBER 16, 2015

Yesterday, emails were sent to the nation’s two largest school districts, New York City and the Los Angeles Unified School District. New York City Mayor De Blasio and Police Commissioner Bill Bratton immediately determined the email was a hoax, while Los Angeles officials shut down the whole district.From the Washington Post,

 

New York City officials opted to open their public schools on time Tuesday, calling the message an amateurish hoax imitating a popular television series. But across the country in Los Angeles, Superintendent Ramon Cortines took a different tack, closing every school in his sprawling district in a move that disrupted the daily lives of more than 640,000 students and their families

[Draggingtree]

Houston ---HISD received the threat yesterday -- e-mail parents last evening school was still going on.