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McKinney ISD board upholds administration, denies grievance alleging EFAC skirted state committee rules
Summary
On Jan. 14, 2026 the McKinney ISD Board of Trustees denied a level 3 grievance from Thomas Klein, who argued the Educational Facilities Alignment Committee (EFAC) functioned as a statutory planning committee under Texas Education Code 11.251 and thus should have followed statutory membership and open-meetings rules; district administration said EFAC was a temporary advisory body and compliant with board policy.
On Jan. 14, 2026, the McKinney Independent School District Board of Trustees voted to deny a level 3 grievance filed by Thomas Klein alleging the district's Educational Facilities Alignment Committee (EFAC) was misclassified to evade statutory membership and open-meetings requirements.
The complaint came before the board during a special meeting called and chaired by Vice President Harvey Wahaca; Klein argued that EFAC performed district-level planning and decisionmaking functions covered by Texas Education Code 11.251 and the Texas Open Meetings Act and that the district had failed to provide complete committee membership information in response to public information requests.
Klein told the…
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