Kyle York has long had concerns about how business is done at Lexington Public Schools. Dissatisfied with how the district supported his daughter with dyslexia , York began requesting a series of records last April. Jumping off another parent’s research, soon he was seeking expense invoices that would explain, for example, how the administration spent tens of thousands of dollars at the Beauport Hotel in Gloucester.

The whole time, York felt Lexington officials were stonewalling his requests, or charging him exorbitant fees, hoping he would go away. An email he recently discovered and shared with the Globe shows, at least in one instance, his suspicions were dead on.

“Can you over estimate the time that it would take you to compile/copy the invoices requested and let me know when you h

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