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The Trump Administration: $1 Billion Cut in Mental Health Grants to Schools—OUR schools are affected in Lemon Grove, Spring Valley and La Mesa.

MIKE IS IN CONVERSATION WITH DEBBIE SKIPPER AND REBECCA BURTON WITH THE LEMON GROVE SCHOOL DISTRICT

❖ DEBBIE SKIPPER, EDUCATOR AND PRESIDENT OF THE LEMON GROVE TEACHERS ASSOCIATION: Debbie is a teacher in the Lemon Grove School District. She has been a public school educator for over 25 years, working with students in grades TK-6. She started teaching kindergarten for San Diego Unified School District , then and in Las Vegas for the Clark County School District before moving back to San Diego and joining Lemon Grove 10 years ago.

❖ Debbie has been the President of the Lemon Grove Teachers Association (LGTA) for 5 years. Debbie is a proud wife and mother of two – one son working on an engineering degree and daughter graduating from high school and will be majoring in Political Science next year.

❖ REBECCA BURTON – LEMON GROVE, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF SPECIAL EDUCATION AND STUDENT SERVICES, AND SHE NOW SERVES AS THE DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT

❖ Rebecca has been an educator for 19 years, starting as a special education teacher in Mexico, and then in public education for Title I districts in Los Angeles and San Diego county. After teaching, she moved into her first district office role as a Special Education coach, and grew into other leadership roles from there. Five years ago, Rebecca began working at Lemon Grove School District in San Diego County as the Executive Director of Special Education and Student Services, and she now serves as the Deputy Superintendent. During her time in public education, Rebecca has led launching Multi-Tiered Systems of Support across three different organizations, which have continued to grow and thrive to this day. Rebecca is deeply passionate about whole child education, creating high quality programs in underserved communities, and building school systems that function as equity champions for vulnerable student populations.

❖ LEMON GROVE TEACHERS ASSOCIATION: LGTA represents and advocates for 191 teachers, psychologists, speech/language pathologists, nurses and social workers. This small association is dedicated to the success of students, families and the local community