So, as it stands, the people in the good public K-12 schools have little access to quality higher education in their area, while the best public universities in the state are focused around areas with abysmal student achievement in the K-12 schools.  So the good high school students either don't go to college or don't go to one that properly nurtures their abilities (or, if they're going that far anyways, just leave the state), and the good colleges recruit people from out of state to come in (who then leave after they graduate).  And, even when a good high school student graduates from a good college in Michigan, nobody's in a position to hire them, because the largest portion of Michigan's economy for the longest time has little use for college grads...