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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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...
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College freshman Angie Bravo’s first language is Spanish, but she wishes she were better at it. The 18-year-old grew up in Laredo, Texas, just across...
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Latinx students at a San Antonio college are learning to challenge negative perceptions around Spanglish.
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The San Antonio metropolitan area has the highest poverty rate in the country out of the 25 largest metro areas, according to 2018 survey estimates...
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A line of white crosses dotted an empty lot on an otherwise busy road in south Odessa. The memorial went up several days after a shooting rampage killed...
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Authorities in west Texas say more details are emerging regarding this weekend's shooting. The gunman was fired from his job on Saturday and called the FBI tip line shortly before the rampage.
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They are early risers and hard workers. Some are the first in their family to go to college. Many are financially independent from their parents. Meet the "nontraditional" college students of today.
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Research showing that reading passages on Texas standardized tests were years above grade level inspired calls for action this legislative session....
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As the first wave of Texas students sit down to take the state standardized test this week, many parents, educators and lawmakers are wondering whether...
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As a master teacher at the San Antonio Independent School District, Michelle Olivarri gets a $15,000 stipend to teach at a school with a history of low...