Martha Rice WSSDA Photo Archives

Yakima School Board Member Martha Rice has been appointed Vice President of the Washington State School Directors' Association.  Rice was selected for the position by the WSSDA Board of Directors at its meeting in Olympia March 31. The board selected Rice after conducting interviews with four candidates for the position -- Rice, Deborah Heart (Goldendale), Aurora Flores (Manson) and June Sine (East Valley/ Spokane).

 

The appointment fills a vacancy in the vice president position created by the resignation of Ricardo Espinoza from the Pasco School Board earlier this year.  Rice will fill out the remainder of the term, which extends to the WSSDA Annual Conference in November of this year.

Rice has been a member of the board of directors of the Yakima School District since 1998. She has been active in WSSDA through service on the Legislative Committee, the Urban Issues Committee, the Federal Relations Network and the Student Achievement Task Force. She is currently enrolled in the Leadership WSSDA program.

Rice has been a longtime participant in PTA activities at the local, regional, state and national levels. She also serves as a gubernatorial appointee to the Washington State Professional Educator Standards Board and is a member of the State Board of Education's Student Accountability Subcommittee Advisory Group.

Under WSSDA policy, the vice president serves on the association’s executive committee and is the WSSDA Board of Directors’ liaison to the association's Legislative Committee. The vice president is expected to attend all meetings of the WSSDA board as well as the National School Boards Association's Pacific Region meetings, its Federal Relations Network Conference and its Leadership Conference.

At the request of the president, the vice president represents the association by attending conferences and meetings of other organizations, by speaking on behalf of the association and participating in state task forces which are addressing significant education policy issues.