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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At least a million Ukrainians have fled to Poland since Russia attacked their home almost two years ago. Roughly a third of those are children who cannot speak Polish. But an internationally recognized project at Texas Woman’s University in Denton is helping to teach them, despite the distance.
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Prosper High School senior James Kim is the new co-host for the fourth season of PBS NewsHour's On Our Minds, a podcast about mental health made by and for teens.
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Senate Bill 17 banned diversity, equity and inclusion programs at state colleges and universities. Schools are complying – while still working in support of DEI goals.
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Dallas public school officials say the pandemic increased the need for more school psychiatrists — but they're in high demand, and more expensive.
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The district will permit schools to hire chaplains as counselors so long as they meet the job requirements. “The district is not hiring chaplains to be just chaplains,” said board President Cameron Bryan.
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Several districts weighed in this week ahead of a March 1 deadline on whether to allow chaplains to serve as school counselors.
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Alena Analeigh Wicker is 15, just graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Biomedical Science from Arizona State University, will get her master’s degree this spring, and has already been accepted to medical school.
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Parents from Katy, Austin and Keller recently launched the Texas Freedom to Read Project. All were angry over growing book bans they say infringe on free speech and access to ideas.
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Keller ISD's interim Superintendent John Allison took the district's projected $27 million shortfall to the public this week. In a community meeting, he explained the causes and blamed the state for inadequate funding.
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The Keller school board unanimously picked its own Chief Human Resources Officer, Tracy Johnson, to be the district's next superintendent. Johnson has 22 years in education as an elementary teacher and administrator across several north Texas districts.
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PEN America has tracked a nationwide growth of laws and bills that — since 2021 — have impinged on educational free speech rights. The organization says 2023 saw 22 state legislatures approve more than 100 bills it calls “educational gag orders.
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House Bill 1 includes funding for school safety and salary raises for teachers. But the measure’s most controversial provision, one creating a school voucher-like program, was stripped from the bill on Friday afternoon.