Good morning, Washington. It sounds like yesterday’s power outage lasted a bit longer than many people anticipated, stretching until the early hours of this morning. Here’s hoping you weren’t one of those stuck tossing and turning in an A/C- and fan-less bedroom. At least the heat was beginning to break at the time: today should mark our escape from a lengthy string of 90+ degree days.

Rhee’s Budget Plan May Have Unintended Consequences: The Post reports that schools chancellor Michelle Rhee’s plan to get every D.C. student access to gym, music and art teachers may have a downside. The effort is set to be implemented by abandoning the existing per-student budget formula in favor of a more rigid per-school system. But a new study commissioned by a coalition of education activists indicates that this could result in larger class sizes and teacher shortages. Rhee’s spokeswoman says that the study used old data and that its conclusions are consequently faulty.

NBC4 Goes Dumpster Diving: A WRCTV report yesterday found documents in a U Street dumpster revealing some District residents’ social security numbers, salary information and other details ripe for identity theft. Apparently the information belonged to a now-defunct real estate company. It’s not clear why or how the documents ended up in the trash, but the police are aware of the situation.

Briefly Noted: 911 problems in Pr. William chalked up to Verizon… District targets Hispanic community for AIDS education & intervention… Hornsby jury reaches some verdicts, remains deadlocked on others… Man who accidentally left son in SUV will face manslaughter charges… Montgomery County domestic worker legislation signed into law… Alexandria minister dies while on spiritual retreat… Md. Sen. Currie’s suspect favors for grocery store date back to 2003…

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