Minneapolis, MN - Obama Presidency Oral History Back Minneapolis, MN Index / Locations Transcripts Gretchen Stewart ...across her career in the cities of Minneapolis , Atlanta, Racine [Wisconsin], an... ...Educator program, the CUE program, in Minneapolis , Minnesota, at the University of St... ...St. Thomas, in collaboration with the Minneapolis Public Schools. It was innovative a... ...very sought after. They were known in Minneapolis Public Schools to be excellen... ...you then spend a bit of time working in Minneapolis , in the educational system there. An... ...of being a teacher. And at the time, Minneapolis Public Schools provided one-on-on... ...down right in the arts community of Minneapolis , which at the time wa... ...I wasn't married. So it was great. And Minneapolis , at the time, was very progressive. ... ...where I taught, but within the [ Minneapolis Public School] district, at othe... ...about a time when I was teaching in Minneapolis , when a parent called me who had neve... ...So I know that the union there in Minneapolis was very pro-Obama and made that know... ...students of color. And that was true in Minneapolis . Even though there's a divers... ...and got funding for that reason. Minneapolis Public Schools understood and knew tha... ...money to work on that. You mentioned Minneapolis again. So at this point, you ha... ...gets caught in that ball. And even in Minneapolis , in a system that I would probabl... ...I feel, is maybe an outlier, and Minneapolis may be very different too. I thin... ...may be very different too. I think Minneapolis has long been known to be progressive... ...and I think that there's truth to that. Minneapolis was the first state to allow charte... ...now, even so, for some kids. And in Minneapolis , they were there. The kids that ar... Show more... Related Topics go to the Women and Girls Women and Girls go to the Republican Opposition Republican Opposition go to the Chicago Chicago go to the Counterterrorism Counterterrorism go to the Criminal Justice Criminal Justice