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Jul 07, 2021

A Scholarship Lottery In Maryland Aims To Get More Teens Vaccinated

Gov. Larry Hogan announced the new VaxU Scholarship program, which will award $50,000 scholarships in a lottery running through Labor Day.

May 11, 2009

D.C. Sends Out High Schoolers Private Data By Mistake

Photo by tzakielmuto 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…

Apr 04, 2009

Sadly, Only A Temporary Break From The Doom and Gloom

Photo by Shermeee used under a Creative Commons license. 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…

 
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