Texas gets B minus grade on website transparency ranking

Texas Watchdog published an article, Texas gets B minus grade on website transparency, regarding the transparency value of the information Texas state and local government agencies post online. The grade of B minus was given by The Sunshine Review. The Sunshine Review, a non-profit is "about state and local government transparency, engaged citizens, and holding government officials accountable. The Sunshine Review wiki collects and shares information about state and local transparency using a 10-point Transparency Checklist to evaluate 6,000 state and local government websites." So what does receiving a B minus mean exactly? According to the Sunshine Review “Anything less than an ‘A’ is a disservice to Texas citizens. Texans deserve a government that discloses vital information about everything from the quality of their children’s schools to how much they pay in taxes.” The government websites were ranked based on a checklist consisting of: how well they offered citizens information about budgets, meetings, lobbying, audits, contracts, public records and taxes. It's very important for our local government to provide this type of information to the people, and when it doesn't it sort of makes people question the government. It's very disappointing to hear that our state has received a B minus when it comes to releasing this type of information, are they possibly trying to hide something or why are we not being informed about state budgets, meetings, public records, taxes, etc.