Good article.  Good data.  But we'll never know the economic impact of the high-achieving students who chose to stay in Alaska because the legislature adopted a budget amendment to forbid accepting any more federal funding (not state funding, mind you) for the ANSWERS database, which was built to provide educators and policymakers data from schools, the university, and job/wages data so they can make informed decisions.  I suppose the legislators who proposed this amendment, and those who voted for it, don't really want to make informed decisions.