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).

Source: LION follow-up email to Whitesboro ISD’s Public Communications contact, June 9, 2026 at 10:55 a.m. CT.

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On the afternoon of June 8, 2026, Whitesboro Independent School District (WBISD) sent two additional replies in the WBISD-PIA-001 thread — the Texas Public Information Act request LION filed on June 1 for the district’s library catalog and 2025–26 reading lists. WBISD’s earlier midday reply had pointed to a public Destiny portal URL on Item 1 and named three curriculum programs on Item 2; LION had asked the district at 3:10 PM for the actual native catalog export, actual reading-list records, and the District’s designated Public Information Coordinator.

At 3:39 PM, WHS Library Media Specialist Sharon Bryan replied that she “won’t be able to get this information at this time” and that “it will be the end of July or the first of August before I can run this information from Destiny.”

At 3:49 PM, Director of Curriculum and Instruction Shelley Reeves replied with two clarifications. On Item 2 (reading lists), Ms. Reeves wrote that “for the 2025/2026 school year, we do not have a specific reading /book list” — a written confirmation that closes Item 2 under Chapter 552 where no responsive records exist. On the question of WBISD’s Public Information Coordinator, Ms. Reeves identified Sandra Lloyd as the District’s Public Communications contact.

At 4:03 PM, LION emailed Superintendent Ryan Harper directly, with Ms. Lloyd, Ms. Bryan, and Ms. Reeves on copy. The letter acknowledged Item 2 as closed and Ms. Lloyd’s identification as the PIA contact, then turned to the open Item 1 (the native Destiny catalog export). LION noted that the Texas Public Information Act’s statutory response window (Tex. Gov’t Code §§ 552.221 and 552.301) runs on calendar business days and does not pause for staff schedules; that the obligation runs on the District as a governmental body, not on any individual employee; that the only statutory suspension mechanism — the § 552.2325 catastrophe notice — explicitly excludes situations where staff can work remotely and is capped at fourteen calendar days; and that the Destiny Title List report runs from the standard reporting menu and does not require Ms. Bryan personally to execute. LION asked Superintendent Harper to advise on who within WBISD can produce the report for each of the four campuses before the ten-business-day window from the June 1 filing closes on or around June 15, 2026.

Sources: Bryan vacation deferral of June 8, 2026; Reeves clarification of June 8, 2026; LION letter to Superintendent Harper of June 8, 2026; Sharon Bryan listed under Library Services on the WBISD website; Shelley Reeves listed as Director of Curriculum under Curriculum & Instruction on the WBISD website.

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On June 8, 2026, Whitesboro Independent School District (WBISD) replied to WBISD-PIA-001, LION’s June 1 Texas Public Information Act request for the district’s library catalog and 2025–26 reading lists. The reply was sent by Sharon Bryan, the high school’s Library Media Specialist, with WBISD’s Director of Curriculum Shelley Reeves on copy.

For the library catalog (item 1), the response pointed to a public Destiny portal URL — a title-by-title search interface hosted at destiny3.esc11.net — rather than the native library-management-system export the request asked for.

For approved reading lists (item 2), the response identified three curriculum programs used at different grade levels (K–5 Bluebonnet, 6–8 Perfection Next, 9–12 McGraw Hill/Pearson) and stated the district “will also follow the TEA Approved Reading List of Literary Works List.” The response did not attach any of the district-level or campus-level records described in the request.

LION replied by email the same day, asking WBISD to (1) generate the native Destiny catalog export for each of the district’s four campuses; (2) produce actual approved reading lists, supplemental materials lists, or ELA curriculum book lists — or, if no such records exist as discrete documents, a brief written confirmation to that effect; and (3) confirm who serves as Whitesboro ISD’s designated Public Information Coordinator under Texas Government Code §552.012.

Sources: WBISD response of June 8, 2026; LION follow-up of June 8, 2026; Sharon Bryan listed under Library Services on the WBISD website; Shelley Reeves listed as Director of Curriculum under Curriculum & Instruction on the WBISD website.

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On June 1, 2026, LION submitted its first Texas Public Information Act request to Whitesboro Independent School District (WBISD), filed as WBISD-PIA-001.

The Texas Public Information Act (Texas Government Code Chapter 552) is the state’s open-records statute. It gives any person the right to request records from a Texas governmental body and generally requires the body to respond within ten business days.

WBISD-PIA-001 asks Whitesboro ISD for two categories of records:

1. A current complete library catalog, holdings inventory, or native library-management-system export — listing titles, authors, and copies — for every campus.
2. Any district-wide or campus-specific approved reading lists, supplemental materials lists, or English/Language Arts curriculum book lists used by teachers during the 2025–26 school year.

LION addressed the request to Superintendent Ryan Harper and asked for the records in electronic format, with a fee waiver under Texas Government Code §552.267.

Source: WBISD-PIA-001, filed June 1, 2026.

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