Nancy Rodriguez, a spokeswoman for the Council of Chief State School Officers, which sponsors the annual Teachers of the Year program, said in an email that Education Secretary Betsy DeVos will instead give the 2019 national winner his award and that Trump was not expected to attend.

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The 2019 National Teacher of the Year is Rodney Robinson, a nearly 20-year educator who works at a Richmond detention center where he teaches social studies to incarcerated young people. In 2015, he began working at Virgie Binford Education Center, a school inside Richmond Juvenile Detention Center.

Robinson was selected in the Teacher of the Year program, which is sponsored by the Council of Chief State School Officers. Every year, winners are selected from each state as well as the District of Columbia, all U.S. territories and the Department of Defense Education Activity. They all come to the nation’s capital in the spring for the annual Teachers of the Year week, where the national winner is named.

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The program goes back to the early 1950s, and presidents usually have been in attendance to honor the national winner, though other people have given the award in some years.

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In a statement, Paul Ferrari, senior program director with the National Teacher of the Year Program, said:

“We are pleased the National Teacher of the Year and State Teachers of the Year are being recognized and celebrated on a national stage during their time in Washington, D.C. Each year, CCSSO works with the White House to coordinate a recognition event. It is up to each administration to decide how to recognize the teachers, and it has varied throughout the 67-year history of the program in location and who has delivered the recognition to the National Teacher.”

In May 2018, Manning gave letters from her immigrant and refugee students to Trump. She also wore to the award ceremony a badge that said “Trans Equality Now,” which was a slap at a president whose administration has promoted policies limiting some rights of transgender Americans. It was just one of a handful of pins she wore promoting equality for all.