On June 9, 2026 at 10:55 a.m. Central, LION sent a follow-up email to Whitesboro Independent School District (WBISD) on two records categories in WBISD-PIA-001 that the district’s June 8 response did not address.
WBISD-PIA-001 is the public information request LION filed under the Texas Public Information Act (Texas Government Code Chapter 552) on June 1, 2026. Item 2 enumerated three categories: (a) approved reading lists, (b) supplemental materials lists, and (c) English/Language Arts curriculum book lists used by teachers, for the 2025-26 school year.
The District’s June 8 response to Item 2 was a single sentence: “For the 2025/2026 school year, we do not have a specific reading /book list.” That addresses category (a). It does not address (b) or (c).
LION’s follow-up identifies the District’s published Curriculum Management Plan, board-approved August 11, 2025, as documenting records responsive to (b) and (c) on the District’s own terms — the “purple request form” approval workflow for supplementary materials, and the Instructional Focus Documents the plan designates as “non-negotiable” for every grade and core content area. The follow-up requests those records or, if no such record is maintained, a written statement to that effect under Chapter 552 signed by an authorized officer.
The follow-up also documents three patterns: a June 8 deferral of the library-catalog item to “the end of July or first of August” on the basis that the relevant staff member is on summer break; four 2025-26 Campus Improvement Plans listed on the District’s “Required Postings” page that returned authentication failures to a public visitor on June 9; and the incomplete response to Item 2(b) and (c).
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