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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Even with promises of significant security upgrades — from 8-foot fences to secure front entrances — families in Uvalde have been asking for a virtual option for weeks. -
A special meeting to possibly fire Uvalde schools police Chief Pete Arredondo has been canceled.
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Families of the 21 victims of the Robb Elementary School Shooting have been demanding Pete Arredondo be fired for nearly two months.
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The school superintendent in Uvalde, Texas, wants the district's police chief, Pete Arredondo, to be fired. Arredondo led the botched law enforcement response to the shooting in which 21 people died.
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In a letter to the school community, Board President Al Lopez announced the departure of CEO JoAnn Gama and COO Irma Muñoz after an in-depth legal and forensic review into the network’s finances.
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Texas public schools will not be required to make up the days they missed during last week’s energy blackouts.
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Public schools across Texas are in limbo as they wait for word on how much funding they’ll receive from the state this semester.
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Under the tentative plan, Trump would fly into Harlingen and take a helicopter to McAllen.
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With schools across the state now open to in-person instruction, many Texas teachers are simultaneously teaching students in the classroom and at home.
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According to program organizers, TU CASA — which stands for Transition University for Career Advancement and Successful Adulthood — will give students the same kind of support they had before aging out of special education in their K-12 schools.
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About a week before students at Great Hearts Western Hills were scheduled to return to the classroom, art teacher Lillian White says she received an...
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San Antonio College’s mascot is no longer the Ranger. SAC’s College Council — made up of mostly faculty, staff and administrators — voted unanimously...
