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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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... -
San Antonio College’s mascot is no longer the Ranger. SAC’s College Council — made up of mostly faculty, staff and administrators — voted unanimously...
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When Marsha Madrigal was in middle school, she thought it was normal to see her classmates in handcuffs.But she knows now that not all schools have a…
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Robert Wagstaff died of COVID-19 April 10, before he could finish his accounting degree at Texas A&M University-San Antonio. He was 30 years old....
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Christopher Terrazas never imagined finishing his second year of teaching from a virtual classroom set up in a corner of his family game room at home....
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As the number of Texas COVID-19 cases grew during the second week of March, nearby schools began extending spring breaks and announcing campus closures....
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The last Democratic presidential candidate from Texas — and the only Latino — has stepped off the political field, nearly one year since the former...
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The University of Texas at San Antonio is following the lead of the Alamo Colleges and UT-Austin, launching a free tuition program for students who meet...
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"To be able to speak Spanglish is to be able to say to people that I am Mexican American, and that's OK," says college freshman Angie Bravo.
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The 2020 Census has high stakes for the state of Texas. Billions of dollars in federal funding for education, transportation and health care are on the...
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The San Antonio Independent School District board adopted an unusual student code of conduct Monday. In addition to the typical list of rules and...
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While Texas is responsible for educating more rural students than any other state in the country — nearly 700,000 — it’s not doing as much for those...
