LION (Local Integrity Oversight Network) is opening an oversight engagement with Whitesboro Independent School District. Whitesboro ISD is a Grayson County district serving approximately 1,500 students across four campuses, with the district office at 115 Fourth Street, Whitesboro, Texas.
As the documentary base develops — Public Information Act requests, district responses, board minutes, and other primary records — the Updates feed below will reflect each event dated to when it happened. Each update is anchored to the primary source document it describes.
Updates
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LION asks Whitesboro ISD to produce supplemental materials and ELA curriculum records left out of the district’s June 8 response
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).
Errors or corrections: corrections@lionwatchtx.org
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Whitesboro ISD says catalog export will wait until late July; LION asks Superintendent for action within the June 15 statutory window
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…
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Whitesboro ISD response to first PIA produces no records; LION follows up asking for the catalog export and reading lists
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…
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LION files first Whitesboro ISD Public Information Act request on library catalog and 2025-26 ELA reading lists
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…
District Profile
Board of Trustees
Seven-member elected Board of Trustees.
- Jeff Patterson — Board President.
- Kevin Hartless — Vice-President.
- Austin Miles — Secretary.
- Shannon Blake — Member.
- Aaron Park — Member.
- Eddie Wood — Member.
- Michael Parish — Member.
Place numbers and term expirations to be added once published district records confirm them.
Administration
Superintendent — Ryan Harper.
Assistant Superintendent — Ryan Prock.
District main — (903) 564-4200.
Board meeting schedule
Cadence: Regular meetings are held on the second Monday of each month, beginning at 6:00 PM for executive session and resuming in open session at 7:00 PM.
Location: Hayes Primary School Cafetorium, 115 Fourth Street, Whitesboro, TX 76273. See the district’s published meeting notices at whitesboroisd.org.
Public Information Act / Open Records contact
The district has not published a dedicated open-records contact. Public Information Act requests are routed through the district administration office.
District administration — 115 Fourth Street, Whitesboro, TX 76273.
Phone — (903) 564-4200.
Documents
Primary-source documents cited from the updates above — LION’s Public Information Act filings, district productions in response, and the documented correspondence with the district — will be available in this folder as the engagement develops.
