Obama honoring Texas teacher who works with war refugees

[Watch Video]President Barack Obama will honor Teacher of the Year Shanna Peeples at a ceremony from the White House at 11:35 a.m. EDT. NewsHour will live stream the event in the player above.

WASHINGTON — A high school English teacher from Amarillo, Texas, is being honored as America’s Teacher of the Year at the White House.

2015 Teacher of the Year Shanna Peeples, photo by Amarillo Globe-News

Shanna Peeples from Palo Duro High School is known for helping guide refugees who have been moving to Amarillo from war-torn countries.

President Barack Obama says all kids deserve a good teacher and a local library full of books to help them dream big. He’s remembering a fifth-grade teacher from his Hawaii childhood who helped him feel special even though he “was just a kid with a funny name in a new school.”

He says on Thursday that he plans to travel to a library in Washington’s impoverished Anacostia neighborhood to announce a new effort to provide books to underprivileged children.

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