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Devin LeMahieu: “The amount of staffing has gone up by over 3,000.”

Featuring: Devin LeMahieu, Republican | Wisconsin State Senate, District 9

For the Record: State senate majority leader Devin LeMahieu

Published December 28, 2025 | Video Starts at 04:15

And I'm going to get the number wrong. So maybe I shouldn't have started with this number. But there's substantially less students, I believe around 55,000 less students in public education. But The amount of staffing has gone up by over 3,000. I believe the number was statewide. So I mean school districts need to start working on consolidation. And a lot of that increase was done during the pandemic when they had Covid money. (04:15–04:19)

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