San Francisco Unified School District officials announced Thursday that Matt Wayne, the current superintendent of the Hayward Unified School District, is the sole finalist to lead SFUSD in the same role.

Pending approval by the district’s Board of Education at a May 24 meeting, Wayne will take over as of July 1 for current SFUSD superintendent Vincent Matthews, who last July announced plans to retire but decided to stay for another year to assist with the district’s transition from distance learning back to in-person classes.

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Dan McMenamin is the managing editor at Bay City News, directing daily news coverage of the 12-county greater Bay Area. He has worked for BCN since 2008 and has been managing editor since 2014 after previously serving as BCN’s San Francisco bureau reporter. A UC Davis graduate, he came to BCN after working for a newspaper and nonprofit in the Davis area. He handles staffing, including coaching of our interns, day-to-day coverage decisions and management of the newswire.