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Seattle I-5 Closure: Seattle Public Schools Dispatching Buses Early

Seattle Public Schools is making preparations for possible delays related to the closure of I-5 in Seattle.

SEATTLE, WA - Seattle Public Schools is dispatching school buses early on Monday in preparation for possible delays related to the closure of I-5. The highway was closed Monday morning after a tanker hauling butane crashed in the southbound lanes south of I-90.

"Due to today’s closure of all lanes along I-5 near I-90, Seattle Public Schools is dispatching buses to schools earlier than normal this afternoon. Right now we are monitoring traffic congestion throughout the city," the district said in a statement on its website.

The school district has also released a list of schools that may be affected by the I-5 closure. Here's the list the school district released on Monday afternoon:

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  • Adams
  • Adams
  • Aki Kruose
  • Bailey Gatzert
  • Ballard
  • Ballard
  • Blaine
  • Bridges
  • Broadview and Thompson
  • Cascadia
  • Coe
  • BF Day
  • Dunlap
  • Early Learning Center
  • Eckstein
  • EEU
  • Franklin
  • Garfield
  • Hale
  • Hamilton
  • Hawthorne
  • Hay
  • Hazel Wolf
  • Ingraham
  • JSIS
  • Martin Luther King Jr
  • Lawton
  • Leschi
  • Listen and Talk
  • Lowell
  • Lowell Heights
  • Madison
  • Madrona
  • McClure
  • McDonald
  • McGilvra
  • Mercer
  • Montlake
  • North Beach
  • Nurse Shuttle
  • Olympic Hills
  • ORCA
  • Queen Anne
  • Roosevelt
  • Sacajawea
  • Sand Point
  • Seattle World School
  • Stevens
  • Thornton Creek
  • Thurgood Marshall
  • Van Asselt
  • View Ridge
  • Washington
  • West Seattle High School
  • West Woodland

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