Georgetown Public Policy Review
Policy Shaping Our Future
In the 2015-16 academic year (AY), Boston Public Schools (BPS) reported the following average Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT) scores: 13th percentile in critical reading, 14th percentile in writing, and 17th percentile in mathematics. The composite average is at the 14th percentile mark. These are the averages at the school level once the three exam-mandatory schools […]
As of Dec. 17, 2020, over 66 million Americans have filed unemployment claims since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. After lengthy negotiations and a partisan stalemate, Congress passed the second $900 billion comprehensive pandemic relief bill in late December providing much-needed relief to struggling Americans for the first time since March. Meanwhile, 34% of […]