Camille Phillips
Education ReporterCamille 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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It’s been more than a decade since the Alamo Colleges paused its tenure program. Full-time faculty hired prior to 2011 have tenure, but faculty hired since then do not. -
For the second year in a row, the Baptist Health Foundation of San Antonio is providing funding for scholarships to Texas A&M University-San Antonio’s counseling program.
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Students who were at Robb Elementary School when a gunman killed 21 people last May returned to class Tuesday amid lingering security concerns and investigations into the police response.
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For some students who attended Robb Elementary in Texas, it will be the first time back in classrooms since a gunman killed 21 people at their school in May.
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El martes será el primer día de regreso a la escuela en Uvalde, Texas, desde que un hombre armado mató a 19 niños y dos maestras en mayo de este año. El regreso a clases es una oportunidad para que los estudiantes vean amigos y vuelvan a la rutina. Pero también trae de vuelta el miedo y el trauma a los afectados por la tragedia.
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Tuesday is the first day back to school in Uvalde, Texas since a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers in May. The return to school is a chance for students to see friends and get back into routines, but it also brings back the fear and trauma for those touched by the tragedy.
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Pete Arredondo, el jefe de policía a cargo de la respuesta policial al tiroteo del 24 de mayo en la Escuela Primaria Robb en Uvalde, Texas, fue despedido.
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Families of the 21 victims of the mass shooting at Robb Elementary had been demanding Arredondo be fired since details became clear of the law enforcement failures that day.
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Pete Arredondo, the police chief in charge of the law enforcement response to the May 24 shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, has been fired.
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Last week the superintendent of the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District said any parent who wants to enroll their child in the district’s new virtual academy would be able to. But according to the Texas Education Agency, Uvalde CISD is still currently required to limit virtual instruction to 10% of its total enrollment.
