In addition to Denver Public Schools, which serves nearly 100,000 students across roughly 200 schools, numerous other school districts said they would not open on Wednesday as a precaution
Denver-area schools were closed on Wednesday as authorities searched for a woman they said was a “credible threat” to the community, a scare that comes just days before the 20th anniversary of one of the country’s deadliest school shootings at Columbine High School.
“Because of her comments and her actions, because of her travel here to the state, because of her procurement of a weapon immediately upon arriving here,” he said, “we consider her to be a credible threat — certainly to the community and, potentially, to schools.” As the investigation continued into early Wednesday, classes were canceled and many schools decided not to open at all. The announcement of closures in metro-area school districts came in a tweet from the Colorado Department of Education shortly before midnight. The state agency said individual districts would provide details about closures.These included Aurora Public Schools and Cherry Creek Schools, as well as Jefferson County Public Schools, which includes Columbine High School.
Caution spread to schools throughout the Denver area, which also issued lockouts or said they were monitoring the situation. Since April 20, 1999, when two gunmen stormed Columbine, killing 13 people and wounding 24, threats of violence have become a painful fact of everyday life for the high school and the highly trained security team tasked with keeping it safe.
The district has also seen an increase in threats and concerning messages, which often come in the form of emails to the school or phone calls to the 24-hour dispatch center run by the district’s security team.
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