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To: Reno89519

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The mission of the Davidson Academy is to provide profoundly gifted young people an advanced educational opportunity matched to their abilities, strengths and interests.

Profoundly gifted students are those who score in the 99.9th percentile on IQ and achievement tests.

The Academy is a third kind of public school (not a charter school) established thanks to state legislation, Nevada Revised Statute 388C.

The Davidson Academy does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, disability, age, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, or gender identity or expression, or any other category protected by applicable state or federal law in its programs and activities.

https://www.davidsonacademy.unr.edu/

The Davidsons establish Davidson & Associates, an educational software company.

Davidson & Associates publishes MathBlaster™ and ReadingBlaster™ along with many other educational software titles that help students be successful learners by individualizing the pace of their education.

The Davidson Academy of Nevada, the first public school of its kind in the nation for profoundly gifted middle and high school students, opens in a temporary location on the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) campus.
35 students enroll for the 2006-2007 school year.

25 students graduate in May 2016.
157 students enroll for the 2016-2017 school year.
Davidson Academy announces Online High School for the 2017-2018 academic year.

https://www.davidsonacademy.unr.edu/about-us/our-history/


10 posted on 06/17/2024 8:38:38 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Brian Griffin; gleneagle
Every WCSD school says the same things. I hesitant to air dirty laundry in public but if it is going on in WCSD I'm not surprised if it is not also including DA.

We can pick that discussion up in private.

12 posted on 06/17/2024 8:43:25 PM PDT by Reno89519 (Trump Please Build the Wall, And Deport Them All. No amnesty for anyone. End H1B!)
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