Camille Phillips
Education Reportercamille@tpr.org
Instagram: camille.m.phillips
Camille Phillips has covered education for Texas Public Radio since 2017. She is also the host of The Enduring Gap, a limited series podcast exploring the Latino college gap in San Antonio, what can be done to close it, and what the rest of the country can learn from it.
In her time at TPR, Camille has focused on students, including the ways calls to ban books effects LGBTQ students, and a push from student advocates to end school policing.
She has also covered the growth of charter schools, the impact and causes of the teacher shortage, and the extra strain remote learning put on parents of students with disabilities.
Her work also regularly airs nationally on NPR, including her coverage of the tragic school shooting in Uvalde, a change in state curriculum acknowledging slavery as a cause of the Civil War, and a course at St. Mary’s University encouraging students to embrace their Spanglish.
In 2023, her work was recognized with a Gracie Award from the Alliance for Women in Media, the Eddie Prize from the Education Writers Association, and two regional Edward R. Murrow awards. Before coming to TPR, Camille worked for St. Louis Public Radio, where she 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 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.
Camille can be reached at Signal, WhatsApp, or via email at camille@tpr.org for news tips and story ideas. She’s on Instagram @camille.m.phillips.
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Retired superintendent Robert Jaklich will be the third interim superintendent to lead the district since Milton Fields was first placed on leave on Jan. 10. -
Judson ISD trustees voted 6-0 Monday to follow the recommendation of administration and permanently close Judson Middle School. -
The Judson school board voted Saturday to hire law firms to conduct investigations into two of their own. -
A board agenda for Judson ISD lists the names of seven schools for possible closure. Trustees plan to choose four from the list. -
Judson ISD trustees voted to permanently close three elementary schools and one middle school on Monday. A decision on which schools to close has not yet been reached. -
One of the federal funding bills just passed by Congress includes money for school safety projects at North East ISD and Uvalde CISD. -
In a contentious 4-3 vote, the Judson ISD board of trustees voted to terminate the contract of Superintendent Milton “Rob” Fields III Wednesday night. -
Students at several San Antonio high schools walked out of class Friday to protest the recent actions of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. At least 10 area high schools had walkouts planned Friday, following multiple walkouts at other schools over the past two weeks. -
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. -
Jury deliberations are underway for the first criminal charges filed in the 2022 Robb Elementary shooting in Uvalde, Texas.
