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Independent Points to Stint as Minneapolis Schools Chief

Minneapolis

Peter Hutchinson said he found the best definition of what it is to be a leader in the most unlikely of places: a 4th grade classroom.

That lesson, which would help define his Independence Party run this year for Minnesota’s governorship, came more than a decade ago during his four-year tenure as superintendent of the Minneapolis public schools.

“A leader is someone who goes out and changes things, and makes them better,” a 4th grade girl told Mr. Hutchinson, a story he repeated to about 50 medical students at the University of Minnesota during a campaign...