Jeff Bearden is the lone finalist for superintendent of Forsyth County Schools. His contract will be officially announced at the end of June.

Bearden will take over the school system for L.C. “Buster” Evans, who is retiring June 30. Keith Porter will then serve as interim superintendent until Bearden takes over.

Bearden is currently superintendent for the Rome City School System, and he previously served as superintendent of Fayette County Public Schools.

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Corbitt VanDuzer, 6, strikes a pose for her mother, teacher Kathryn VanDuzer, before her first day of first grade at Glennwood Elementary School in Decatur, Ga., on Tuesday, July 30, 2024. (Seeger Gray/AJC)

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Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D. (center) is flanked by GOP whip Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo. (left) and Finance Committee Chairman Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, as Thune speak to reporters at the Capitol in Washington on Tuesday, July 1, 2025. Earlier Tuesday, the Senate passed the budget reconciliation package of President Donald Trump's signature bill of big tax breaks and spending cuts. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP)

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