A new report from the Alliance for Excellent Education contends that states would save a nationally aggregated average of $13,706 per student if every student slated to graduate as part of the Class of 2006 actually did so. The dollar figure represents savings of state money spent on Medicaid and medical costs for uninsured individuals. Projected out over the lifetimes (through age 65, when recipients become eligible for Medicare) of an estimated 1.2 million dropouts among current high school students, states could save a combined $17 billion if the students graduated instead.