Full Coverage: LAUSD schools closed for a day by threat of violence

Outside the gates of a Highland Park elementary school Wednesday morning, parents kissed their children goodbye and lingered to watch as they scampered inside.

At Thomas Starr King Middle School in Los Feliz on Wednesday morning, a stream of students trudged past taped handmade “NO SCHOOL TODAY� signs, dated Tuesday.

About 6 a.m.

At the entrance to Yorkdale Elementary School in Highland Park, Amanda Arreola stood on her tippy-toes, reached up to her mother, Claudia, and traced a cross over her heart.

The threats arrived at the same time on opposite sides of the country.

When Los Angeles Unified schools reopen Wednesday, students, teachers and parents can expect to see more police even though a threat that closed campuses the day before was determined not credible, officials said.

A crudely written email threat to members of the Los Angeles Board of Education prompted officials to close all 900 schools in the nation’s second-largest school system Tuesday, sending parents from San Pedro to Pacoima scrambling to find day care — while New York law enforcement dismissed a nearly identical threat from the same sender as an obvious hoax.

Although Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said the threat that closed all L.A.

A 17-year-old student was struck and killed by a city service truck Tuesday morning as he was crossing a Highland Park street not far from his charter high school.

Ana Rodriguez awoke to disturbing voices on the television.

Los Angeles officials on Tuesday defended the decision to close schools after receiving a “credible threat� of violence involving backpacks and packages left at campuses.

The email appears to have been a hoax, a mean-spirited effort to force more than a million people to change their daily patterns out of fear.

Like a child celebrating a snow day, Michael Ramirez skateboarded down the middle of Cypress Avenue in Northeast Los Angeles, popping wheelies and blasting music through white earbuds.

It was shortly after 7 Tuesday morning when my husband came into our home office and whispered, “Come here.

After the closure of all Los Angeles Unified School District campuses on Tuesday because of a “credible threat� of violence, the City Section announced that all athletic events scheduled on LAUSD campuses have been canceled for today and will be rescheduled.

Todas las escuelas del Distrito Escolar Unificado de Los �ngeles permanecen cerradas este martes por la mañana, luego de que un miembro de la junta directiva de LAUSD recibió una amenaza de bomba, informo la policía.

At Hollenbeck Middle School in Boyle Heights, Principal Randy Romero was locking up the front gates when a parent with a student in the passenger seat drove up to ask to ask if there would be school the next day.

All Los Angeles Unified School District campuses are closed Tuesday due to a threat made to several campuses.

Zayda Hernandez pulled up to Mayberry Elementary School shortly after 7:30 a.m.