Jessica Duenas of Kentucky and Kelly Holstine of Minnesota were both awarded Teacher of the Year 2019 for their respective states.
Two award-winning teachers boycotted a ceremony at the White House held in their honor in protest of President Donald Trump’s policies.
Duenas, who works as a special education teacher at Oldham County Middle School, described how she could not attend the ceremony in good faith because of Trump’s immigration and LGBT policies and remarks on the Latino community “Privatization is also a threat to the state, and when Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos came to Kentucky, not a single Kentucky public school education representative was at the table; even students were turned away. I've heard people state, 'This was your chance to tell members of his administration how you feel and you missed it.'"
"My frustrations with the current administration are the messages and actions and policies and words that are shared about the population of students that I work with,” Holstine told a press conference . Another person who did not attend the award ceremony was Trump himself. His decision not to hand over the National Teacher of the Year award to Robinson follows a protest from last year’s winner, Mandy Manning.
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