JCPS teacher Jessica Dueñas skipped the ceremony in protest of the Trump administration's policies.
Kentucky's 2019 teacher of the year skipped a formal ceremony at the White House on Monday — a snub Jessica Dueñas said was in protest of the Trump administration's embrace of school-choice policies.
"It's not enough to tell our kids, 'It gets better,'" Holstine said Tuesday."We need to make it better for them now." Dueñas, a native New Yorker, said she also didn't feel comfortable being on the White House grounds for personal reasons. As an Oldham County teacher, Dueñas spent time writing grants in order to get new technology for her students; at DuBois, her students have benefited from robust funding from JCPS and community supporters. Rather than diverting resources from public schools through school-choice polices, she said, states like Kentucky should focus on getting schools in rural communities the resources they need.
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