SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Some Illinois lawmakers are looking to find solutions for higher education, declining enrollment and financial concerns as more graduating high school students are enrolling out of state.

The (Bloomington) Pantagraph reports that figures from the Illinois State Board of Education show 46 percent of 2016 Illinois high school graduates who enrolled in a four-year university went out of state. That’s compared with 2002, when 29 percent enrolled in another state.

Republican state Sen. Chapin Rose of Mahomet sounded an alarm recently at a McLean County Republican Party breakfast, saying higher education needs to be retooled. Rose and Republican state Rep. Dan Brady of Bloomington are proposing a bill that calls for a comprehensive overhaul of higher education.

Al Bowman is the executive director of the state board and a former president of Illinois State University. He says the state “has had a history of out-migration for many, many years.”