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This year's award went to English and math teacher Mandy Manning who teaches refugee and immigrant students at the public school in Spokane, Washington.
今年的奖项授予英语和数学老师曼迪·曼宁，她在华盛顿斯波坎公立学校教难民和移民学生。
To Mandy and all of the amazing educators here today, your tireless dedication doesn't just inspire your students.
对曼迪和今天在座的所有出色的教育工作者来说，你们的不懈奉献不仅激励了你们的学生。
It inspires all of us and I can tell you it very much inspires me.
它还激励着我们所有人，更激励了我。
Wednesday's event comes as teachers across the nation strike to protest inadequate funds for public education.
周三的颁奖礼发生在全国教师罢工之际，他们抗议公共教育经费不足。
The latest wave of strikes started April 26 in the state of Arizona, keeping more than a million public school students out of class.
最近一波罢工于4月26日在亚利桑那州开始，这导致了100多万公立学校学生无法正常上课。
Teachers' pay raise is just one of their demands.
加薪只是他们的诉求之一。
Teacher pay raise does not address the materials in the classroom that are outdated.
加薪并不能解决课堂上教材过时的问题。
It doesn't address the fact that we have mice and cockroaches and the fact that there are 40 kids in a class.
不能解决教室有老鼠和蟑螂，一个班里有40个孩子的事实，
It doesn't address the fact that we have one social worker for 800 kids.
也不能解决一名社会工作者要照管800名孩子的问题。
I come from a classroom where the chairs are falling apart. The tables had edges that can cut kids and I have to tape.
我所在的教室里，凳子大多都散落了，桌子的边缘都可以割伤孩子，我不得不用胶带把这些桌子缠起来。
The Arizona protests were part of a national teacher uprising that began in West Virginia
全国性教师罢工源自西弗吉尼亚州，而此次亚利桑那州是其中一部分，
and spread to other states including Colorado, Kentucky and Oklahoma.
并蔓延到其它州，包括科罗拉多州，肯塔基州以及俄克拉荷马州。
Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos has been criticized for what some people see as an effort to dismantle the public school system.
教育部长贝特西·德沃斯受到了批判，因为一些人认为这是一种拆除公立学校系统的做法。
She has been a staunch supporter of charter and other schools, calling them a better alternative to public schools.
她一直是特许学校和其他学校的坚定支持者，称它们是相较于公立学校的更好选择。
Where options do exist, students often do better.
一旦我们有选择，学生往往会表现得更好。
In Detroit, for example, students who attend charter schools perform twice as well as their traditional public school counterparts on state achievement tests.
比如在底特律，特许学校学生在大州成绩测试中比传统公立学校学生好很多。
DeVos has said that US public education is built around industrial era thinking and needs and by large has not moved forward.
德沃斯说，美国的公共教育是建立在工业时代的思考和需求上的，大体上没有什么进展。
Her critics say the public funds she is channeling to private schools through vouchers given to parents to pay for them
但批评人士指出，她通过给家长发放代金券的形式将公款用于私立学校，
would be better used to improve public school education.
而这些公款本应该用于改善公立学校。
Zlatica Hoke, VOA News, Washington.
VOA新闻，扎拉提卡·霍克华盛顿报道。
