LANSING — Ben Shuldiner believes he accomplished a lot at the Lansing School District between two monumentally personal events - open heart surgery because of an aortic aneurism shortly after he was hired nearly five years ago, and, just last month, marrying the woman who was part of the reason he moved to Michigan from New York.

Shuldiner, who was the sole finalist to lead Seattle Public Schools, married Veronika Scott, founder of the Detroit-based Empowerment Plan, on Oct. 25, around the same time he was interviewing for a new job on the West Coast.

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