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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Experts, officials and residents say the slower pace of the rainfall — over several days instead of hours — combined with new sirens and increased vigilance helped save lives this year. -
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 Nueces County jury acquitted former Uvalde CISD police officer Adrian Gonzales on all charges, ending the first criminal case tied to the law enforcement response to the 2022 Robb Elementary School shooting. -
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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Jury deliberations are underway for the first criminal charges filed in the 2022 Robb Elementary shooting in Uvalde, Texas. -
The sister of a Uvalde teacher killed at Robb Elementary was barred from the Gonzales trial after interrupting proceedings. -
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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The trial of a former Uvalde school district police officer accused of child endangerment in the Robb Elementary shooting took an unexpected turn Tuesday after testimony from a teacher prompted defense objections and halted proceedings for the day. -
Thousands of children in Collin, Dallas, Denton and Tarrant counties are affected by the country's immigration policies, according to a new analysis by the Migration Policy Institute. -
Students in sixth through 12th grade in New Braunfels ISD are currently unable to visit their school libraries or check out books. -
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.
