Camille Phillips
Camille Phillips covers education for Texas Public Radio.
She previously worked at St. Louis Public Radio, where she reported on the racial unrest in Ferguson, the impact of the opioid crisis and, most recently, education.
Camille was part of the news team that won a national Edward R. Murrow and a Peabody Award for One Year in Ferguson, a multi-media reporting project. She also won a regional Murrow for contributing to St. Louis Public Radio’s continuing coverage on the winter floods of 2016.
Her work has aired on NPR’s "Morning Edition" and national newscasts, as well as public radio stations in Missouri, Illinois, Kansas, Iowa and Nebraska.Camille grew up in southwest Missouri and moved to New York City after college. She taught middle school Spanish in the Bronx before beginning her journalism career.
She has an undergraduate degree from Truman State University and a master’s degree from the Missouri School of Journalism at the University of Missouri-Columbia.
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Public universities across Texas have instituted sweeping changes in recent months, from canceling gender studies programs to directing faculty to sign a pledge not to indoctrinate students.
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A Texas jury on Wednesday acquitted former Uvalde school police officer Adrian Gonzales of all charges in the first criminal trial tied to the 2022 shooting that killed 19 children and two teachers.
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Testimony in the trial of a former Uvalde school police officer was paused Tuesday after the prosecution was accused of withholding information after a key witness changed their testimony.
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In Uvalde, a new school built with security upgrades is opening three years after the Robb Elementary shooting.
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Texas Public Radio's Camille Phillips reports from Uvalde, where a new school built with security upgrades opens three years after the Robb Elementary shooting.
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Nicknames must align with biological sex: North East ISD's guidance to teachers to comply with SB 12At the start of the school year, North East ISD told staff they also must tell students' parents if the student brings up their sexual orientation or gender identity. -
A&M-San Antonio got a $1.75 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education to open the childcare program, which has space for 50 children from preschool through sixth grade. -
Pro-Palestinian student groups named in Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's order to public universities and colleges to revise free speech policies to address antisemitism say they're being singled out.
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According to a TPR analysis of state data, even with recapture, today’s school funding system still isn’t fair. And, because the funding system is also really complicated, the ways it’s unfair aren’t very well understood. -
A year after 19 children and two teachers were killed at Robb Elementary School, there are plans to build a new school on a different location than the one where the mass shooting took place.
