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New Principal Selected for Rice Elementary
RICE (WJON News) -- Rice Elementary will have a new principal next school year.
The Sauk Rapids-Rice School Board has selected Jenny Bushman to fill that role. She is currently the Director of Teaching and Learning for Sauk Rapids-Rice.
Her first day in her new role will be on July 1st.
The district says they had a number of applications for the position from which the field of candidates was narrowed down to four people who were brought in for interviews.
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Bushman began her career as a teacher at Blue Earth Area High School.
Bushman will replace Susan Paasch who has been the principal at Rice Elementary since 2017.
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