SEATTLE — A new superintendent has been selected to lead Seattle Public Schools (SPS), following a unanimous school board vote on Wednesday.

Ben Shuldiner was named superintendent out of a total 41 candidates who applied for the role.

Shuldiner, a Harvard University alum, has over 25 years of experience in education, and is the current superintendent of Michigan’s Lansing School District. He was previously a lecturer and Dean’s Fellow at Hunter College, City University of New York, and served on the New York City Board of Education.

“I believe our goal today is to make Seattle the single greatest urban school district in America,” he said at the school board meeting on Wednesday. “And we should ask nothing less of ourselves because our children deserve it, our families deserve it and th

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