Good news! We're just six days into 2015 and back from the brink of what some worried was an attempted at cancelling the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day rally at Garfield High School on January 19.

The school district—which is under federal investigation over whether it suspends black students at disproportionate rates—calls it a "mix-up."

For now, crisis averted. According to James Williams, the chair of the committee that organizes the annual rally and march, workshops at Garfield will begin at 9 a.m. The celebration in the gym will begin at 10 a.m., instead of 11, and the march will began at noon. The whole schedule has been moved up.

But yesterday, Williams says, the committee received e-mails informing them that their permits to use the high school were being denied. "The denial would have affected everything," he said. "They asked that we resubmit the application we [had] submitted." (Williams also said he's not entirely certain how the district's online, automated event-scheduling system works.)

Williams says he was taken aback by the e-mails. "I think it would have been a really bad move if they'd tried to cancel the march. We do need to figure out what happened," he says.

Today, 15 members of the organizing committee made a trip to the district headquarters after re-submitting their application, Williams says. They met with district officials, including Garfield's principal. "They told us today their intention wasn't to cancel," Williams told me. "Whatever. I'm glad we can move past it."

For a few hours today, members of Seattle's #Blacklivesmatter movement were up in arms about the cancellation. A Facebook post asked that supporters flood the district with calls and e-mails, and announced plans for a demonstration at SPS headquarters.

One Slog reader, Carol Issac, received a response from the district that suggested the MLK march organizers were responsible for the confusion: "We granted their request they put in for the permit late, but it has all been worked out and they will be able to have their rally."

The district's spokesperson, Stacy Howard, sent me an e-mail with a message striking a similar note: "We granted their request, the show goes on as usual. There was some confusion, but ultimately the way it works with any rental is an organization fills out an online form and works directly with the building for approval."

And Ted Howard, the principal at Garfield High School, called to tell me that Williams "didn't fill out the paperwork correctly" on the district's online permitting program, which is called—this is weird—Schooldude. He said the system "kicked" Williams out last night. "He [Williams] took that as it being denied and kind of rallied everyone," Howard says.

Williams says he wasn't sure whether the e-mails were automated or not. "I don't know the details of their system," he says. "I know I got a few emails saying it was denied. I'm not trying to turn everybody against Mr. Howard."

Meanwhile, he has a message for the march's supporters: "I really appreciate everyone who made calls and sent e-mails, everyone who stepped up and spoke with one voice that the march needed to happen."

He expects this to be one of the largest-ever MLK day events, in light of the demonstrations that have swept the country in recent months. The keynote speaker will be Jelani Brown, a youth organizer from Ferguson, Missouri.