Just got off the phone with Dallas Independent School District spokesman Jon Dahlander, who, moments ago, announced that the district is closing Daniel Webster Elementary from tomorrow till May 11 due to one confirmed case of the swine flu at that campus. (It will remain open throughout today to accomodate working parents who may not be able to pick up their kids.) As a DISD parent myself, I was curious how the district's handling all this -- which is to say, does DISD have any intention of following the Fort Worth ISD's route and shutting down all schools should more confirmed cases show up on several other campuses?

To which Dahlander responded: Hard to say.

"We're continuing to monitor it with the county," he says. "We're taking our orders from them." But in this case, he acknowledges, Dallas County health officials did not order the campus shutdown. That was done by district officials, who opted this morning to close the school and order its immediate disinfection.