ABOUT KEBA BALDWIN
Baldwin started his career in 1996 teaching middle school science at
Durham Public Schools in North Carolina.
He was a graduate of Fayetteville State University, where he was a four-year starter on the football team and ob- tained a bachelor’s degree in biology. In addition to being a teacher, he was an athletic director for five years before going back home to Fayetteville. He decided to find a job related to his major and worked for a pharmaceutical company for about two years. However, in 2005 he re-entered the education sector, serving as a safe schools coordinator, health and PE co- ordinator, and driver’s ed coordinator for Onslow County Schools. Baldwin then became an elementary school assistant principal for Currituck County Schools in North Carolina, and while he said he loved that role, he grew bored. He put out feelers for a transportation-related po- sition, as it was something he enjoyed in an interim role when he was Currituck’s student services director. In August 2015, he became the transportation director
of Suffolk Public Schools in Virginia, and this is when he said his story really begins. For almost four years, he oversaw the district operations of 200 buses and 150 daily routes. Around 8,000 of the total enrollment of 15,000 rode the school bus daily. In 2018, an injury to Baldwin’s mother brought him back to Maryland to be closer to her. A year later, he started at Prince George’s County as a transportation supervisor. He noted one bus terminal was the size of Suffolk’s sole facility. It was during this time that Prince George’s County was moving to a new routing software and implementing stop-arm cameras.
However, after a couple years, Baldwin said he wanted another challenge, specifcally a transportation direc- tor job again. He found one at Stafford County Public Schools in Virginia as the executive director of trans- portation. At the time, the district had about 30,000 students, 300 school buses and almost 200 routes. He worked at Stafford from 2021 to 2023, when he learned Rudolph Saunders, then-director at PGCPS and the man who hired Baldwin four years earlier, retired and leader- ship changes were underway. “This was my fit. This was where I was supposed to
be,” Baldwin recalled. “They offered me the job, and I took it. I showed up, and it was like, welcome home. I wasn’t nervous about coming back. Some of the same people that were there when I left in 2021, we’re still here. And tell you the truth, it was almost like I just picked up from where I left off, and we have been run- ning since.”
Baldwin said he wanted to experience transportation
at all levels, and that he did. Currently, PGCPS is the 18th largest school system in the U.S. and the second largest in Maryland. “To take all of the skills that I’ve learned at the smaller
districts, bring them up to the larger districts, it’s differ- ent, but it’s needed,” he said. “At the smaller districts, I did everything. From titling the school buses to going to accidents, to routing, the whole gambit. Talking with parents, going to the schools, I did all of that. “When you come to a larger district, you have other
staff to do that. And I’m a hands-on type of guy, and so it took me a minute to kind of get out of the way,” he continued.
Prince George County Schools: At a Glance
• Total number of general education students transported daily: 133,087 • Total number of students with disabilities transported daily: 6,176 • Total number of McKinney-Vento students transported daily: 1,337 • Total number of school bus drivers/monitors on staff: 900 • Total number of other transportation employees: 268 • Total number of school buses in fleet: 1,267 • Total number of other vehicles in fleet: 741 • Total number of routes: 1,102 • Total miles traveled annually: 16,638,034
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