Too little information! I’d like to know which schools in Washoe County, specifically, are involved. Such as The Davidson Academy?
Definitely NOT The Davidson. Academy
Quotes:
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/
Not doubt Angie Taylor will look into it. Before she goes to the NV senate. 🤔
My father, as an employer and manager of hundreds of people and operator of about a dozen businesses, firmly believed that the ability to judge people was the most important skill a person could have.
He would never have permitted his children to attend an ‘elite’ grade level school.