Ben Shuldiner
American high school principal
Ben Shuldiner (born April 19, 1977) is an American educator who has served as the superintendent of Seattle Public Schools since February 2026. He previously led the
Lansing School District in Michigan from 2021-2026. Shuldiner was President of the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development from 2017-18. He was appointed to the New York City Board of Education in 2015.
Early life and education
Shuldiner, who is Jewish, was raised in New York City, though his family moved considerably when he was a child due to his father, Joseph Shuldiner's involvement in the movement to improve public housing (Joseph Shuldiner eventually became an undersecretary of housing in the Clinton Administration).
Ben Shuldiner attended Harvard University as an undergraduate and was involved in labor activism. He was selected to join the inaugural class of the AFL–CIO's Union Summer, where he worked organizing day care workers in urban Chicago. On campus, he co-founded Harvard's Progressive Student Labor Movement to fight for living wages for university employees and also served as a sports writer for The Harvard Crimson. In addition to his primary study of history of science, he took graduate-level education courses to earn his teaching credentials and graduated with a bachelor's degree in history and science magna cum laude in 1999. He holds a Master of Science in Education from Baruch College.
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