While Southland College Prep adopts a lottery pick system for admissions and is not a selective enrollment school, it continues to draw significant interest, with over 300 students from the south suburbs vying for the 100 annual openings. Notably, minorities constitute 97 percent of the student body.
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.