When I came in, we used to hear from our friends on the other side, Iowa, how wonderful Minnesota was. We needed an education system like Minnesota. They had. We have what, 521 school, 421 school districts. Minnesota had like 426 [school districts]. They were spending all this money on their schools. And they... forced consolidation. Other people, my Democrat friends, that says Wisconsin doesn't. And look at their education system. It collapsed. They are now down. What they did is they couldn't sustain their school system. (11:30–21:54)
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Asserts that Minnesota had 426 school districts and forced consolidation due to financial issues.
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