Cumming, GA, August 21, 2026: Vishal Srivastava, a longtime Forsyth County resident and a 25-year veteran of the data and analytics industry, is running for the Forsyth County Board of Education, District 5, challenging incumbent Mike Valdes, who has served on the board for the past four years.
Srivastava says the county’s highly regarded schools cannot afford to become complacent at a time when artificial intelligence is rapidly changing education and the workplace.
In an interview with NRI Pulse, Srivastava spoke about why he is running, his ambition to benchmark Forsyth County Schools against the best education systems in the world, his vision for “AI-native” schools, personalized AI tutors, reducing teachers’ workloads and student mental health.
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