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SEARCHWACO, Texas — State pupil transportation director Charley Kennington will transition to a new job next week. Kennington will move from the Texas ...
WACO, Texas — State pupil transportation director Charley Kennington will transition to a new job next week.
Kennington will move from the Texas Department of Public Safety to another state agency, Region 4 Education Service Center in Houston. He will serve as the center’s director of transportation services.
With the move, Kennington leaves his post as state director and his role in the National Association of State Directors of Pupil Transportation Services (NASDPTS), where he was president-elect.
NASDPTS President Derek Graham said that Kennington is “a hard worker and will be sorely missed as a state director and as president-elect.”
Graham said that the NASDPTS board of directors would attempt to fill the president-elect position within the next 60 days.
Kennington became a state director for Texas in 1999 when he joined the Department of Public Safety as school bus transportation program administrator.
Unlike most other states, Texas has more than one state director — the other being Randy Boatman, program administrator for school transportation at the Texas Education Agency.
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