Bill Zeeble
Senior ReporterBill Zeeble has been a full-time reporter at KERA since 1992, covering everything from medicine to the Mavericks and education to environmental issues.
He’s won numerous awards over the years, with top honors from the Dallas Press Club, Texas Medical Association, the Dallas and Texas Bar Associations, the American Diabetes Association and a national health reporting grant from the Kaiser Family Foundation.
Zeeble was born in Philadelphia, Pa. and grew up in the nearby suburb of Cherry Hill, NJ, where he became an accomplished timpanist and drummer. Heading to college near Chicago on a scholarship, he fell in love with public radio, working at the college classical/NPR station, and he has pursued public radio ever since.
His first real radio gig was with a classical station in Corpus Christi, where the new Texan was dubbed “Billy Ted”; he was also a manager at WNO-FM in New Orleans.
Several stories he covered on television for KERA 13 helped homeowners avoid losing their homes.
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Pre-kindergarten classes for 3- and 4-year-olds will be free for all Dallas Independent School District students beginning next year. Up to now, pre-K has only been free to select students, including those in low-income families or with military parents. -
More than 48,000 Dallas ISD students will take the same field trips across the same grades. It's a move new to the district. STEM oriented nonprofit Lyda Hill Philanthropies’ $250,000 grant is making it possible. -
Texas families have until midnight Tuesday to apply for newly created Texas Education Freedom Accounts, which use public funds to pay for private schooling. -
Dallas school and city leaders say the historic $6.2 billion bond on the May 2 ballot would continue progress the district has been making after the passage of bond packages in 2015 and 2020. -
School districts across North Texas are losing students and closing campuses. But others are building new ones to keep up with rapid growth. -
The University of Texas System Board of Regents this week will consider how controversial topics are taught. It’s a move driven by conservative new laws that critics say target LGBTQ+ students and DEI programs. -
Dallas school trustees will vote Thursday whether to send a $6.2 billion bond package to voters May 2. If they do, it would be the largest school bond election in Texas history. -
Hundreds of Dallas students walked out of Townview magnet school Tuesday morning to protest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement actions here and nationwide. It came weeks after the state warned there could be consequences for schools if students hold walkouts. -
The Texas Education Agency has named former Assistant Attorney General Levi Fuller as the state’s first Inspector General of Educator Misconduct – this as Texas toughens education policies. -
Garland ISD’s school board voted this week to agree with a federal motion to declare the district "unitary” and release it from a decades-old desegregation order. -
Texas lawmakers finally increased funding for disabled students after years of underfunding. Now, the state must figure out what equipment, training and other services that $250 million will go toward. -
U.S. Attorney Ryan Raybould, of the Northern District of Texas, filed a motion last month to release Garland ISD from a 1970 federal order to desegregate its schools, arguing the district has long been in compliance.
