{"id":377217,"date":"2026-07-17T20:51:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T20:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/377217\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T20:51:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T20:51:08","slug":"humble-isd-trustees-approve-7-appointments-to-school-library-advisory-committee-lake-houston-humble-kingwood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/377217\/","title":{"rendered":"Humble ISD trustees approve 7 appointments to School Library Advisory Committee | Lake Houston – Humble – Kingwood"},"content":{"rendered":"

Humble ISD<\/a> trustees approved seven appointees to serve on the 2026-27 School Library Advisory Committee<\/a> during the July 9 special-called meeting.<\/p>\n

The details<\/p>\n

Trustees were charged with appointing one member each to the committee. Among those appointed are:<\/p>\n

Beth Spear, who was appointed by board President Mike GrabowskiDavid Branham, who was appointed by trustee Chris ParkerMegan Waldrop, who was appointed by trustee Oscar SilvaCynthia Calvert, who was appointed by trustee Ken KirchhoferTiffany Thomas, who was appointed by trustee Elizabeth ShawJessica Hadley, who was appointed by trustee Marques HolmesSusie Helms, who was appointed by trustee Robert ScarfoSome context<\/p>\n

The appointments are coming after trustees voted in June to reduce the size<\/a> of the committee from 21 members to a minimum of seven.<\/p>\n

During the board\u2019s June 16 meeting, Grabowski said the change was being recommended after board members received feedback suggesting 21 members was too large a group to manage.<\/p>\n

The SLAC was established as part of Senate Bill 13<\/a>, which passed in the 89th Texas Legislature earlier this year and expands parental rights to review and question instructional and library materials used in the district.<\/p>\n

The bill allows districts to form local \u201cschool library advisory councils\u201d if at least 50 parents or 10% of the parents in the district, whichever is less, sign a petition requesting a council. The councils must have at least five members, most of whom are parents. Members can make recommendations to add or remove books from a school\u2019s library, according to the bill.<\/p>\n

Any resident can submit complaints about books in a district\u2019s library under SB 13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Humble ISD trustees approved seven appointees to serve on the 2026-27 School Library Advisory Committee during the July…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377218,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[133375,133377,24479,56,58,57,31243,133374,133378,133376,118901,133379,67850],"class_list":["post-377217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-beth-spear","tag-cynthia-calvert","tag-david-branham","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-humble-isd","tag-humble-isd-school-library-advisory-committee","tag-jessica-hadley","tag-megan-waldrop","tag-mike-grabowski","tag-susie-helms","tag-tiffany-thomas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}