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The Post is reporting that the D.C. Office of the State Superintendent of Education accidentally emailed personal information belonging to roughly 2,400 D.C. high school students out to about 1,000 people last week. The mistake reportedly happened when an employee who works in the Higher Education Financial Services Program, which administers the District's Tuition Assistance Grant Program that helps eligible college-bound D.C. residents pay the difference between in-state and out-of-state tuition at state universities across the country, inadvertently attached a spreadsheet to an email she was sending out to applicants. What kind of information was in that spreadsheet? "Student names, e-mail and home addresses, phone and Social Security numbers and dates of birth." Major drag, and major mistake.

It was refreshing, if only for one moment, to read this morning's news and find a story that actually made this curmudgeonly writer smile: the Washington Times picked up the AP report from a surprise ceremony last night at the Duke Ellington School of the Arts where nine D.C. high school seniors were awarded full scholarships -- valued around $200,000 -- to attend George Washington University this fall.