Oh - Are you an Alaska " taxpayer" Ernie?? You must be the only one!!
And, from what I read the costs are largely borne by health organizations to address an acknowledged rural health epidemic, and by Native organization scholarships. And the epidemic is not confined to rural Alaska. It is national, and international (See news articles last month on mass rural suicides in Canada.)  Check the data on the growth of suicide and drug abuse/incarceration among women nationally.. 
Also, you might want to check completion rates amonag ANY AND ALL students starting college = 75%  completion is quite respectable. Then get back to me - and Ernie- a bit more education for yourself might not hurt - the 25% incomplete rate is "one-fourth" - not "one forth".. :>)