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County adopts resolution urging UF not to change PK Young admission mission
Summary
Following requests from alumni and parents, the commission read and adopted a resolution mirroring the City of Gainesville’s action asking the University of Florida Board of Trustees to preserve Philip Keyes (P.K.) Young School’s lottery‑based admissions and diverse mission.
The Alachua County Board of County Commissioners adopted a resolution urging the University of Florida Board of Trustees and university leadership not to change the Philip Keyes (P.K.) Young Developmental Research School’s current lottery‑based admissions process or its mission of serving a demographically diverse K‑12 population.
A commissioner read a mirror of the City of Gainesville’s resolution into the record, citing the school’s history of admitting students via lottery and the importance of maintaining a student population representative of Florida’s racial and income demographics. The resolution expresses concern that selective high‑school admissions would reduce racial, socioeconomic and learning‑diversity at P.K. Young and would limit the school’s ability to produce research relevant to the entire state.
The resolution directs the county clerk to provide certified copies to the University of Florida Board of Trustees chair, the university president and other named UF officials. The commission adopted the mirror resolution by voice vote after the reading.
County Attorney staff said the county could read and adopt the mirror resolution and that it would be signed by the chair and attested by the clerk. The resolution text as read includes references to P.K. Young’s lottery admissions, research mission, percentages of students with gifted labels and individualized education programs, and explicit direction that the county request UF leadership not to interfere with the school’s admission process.
