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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The San Antonio Independent School District is partnering with the Mexican Consulate to offer free literacy classes to Spanish-speaking adults. -
In a survey Texas Public Radio sent to students currently or recently enrolled in one of San Antonio’s public institutions of higher education, Hispanic students were just as likely as white students to take out loans. But the reasons they didn’t take out loans varied depending on their race and ethnicity.
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With 16 competitive races spread across six different Bexar County school districts Saturday, familiar names held a lot of sway.
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According to U.S. Census data, just 17% of Hispanics in the San Antonio Metropolitan Area have a bachelor’s degree, well under half the rate of degree attainment for San Antonio’s white and Asian population. San Antonio’s Black population falls in between, but is also less likely to have a college degree.
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The stress and strain of living through a pandemic — while learning virtually for an entire year — has hurt the attendance records of many Texas students, including the Yebra siblings’. But they're not ready to go back to the classroom.
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A new safety policy approved by Comal ISD trustees Tuesday night makes wearing a mask optional for both students and staff. The new policy went into effect the following day.
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After months of waiting for word, Texas school leaders learned Thursday they will not be penalized for drops in enrollment and attendance during the pandemic this spring.
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Texas schools will not have to change their mask policies when the state mask mandate ends March 10.
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Southwest High School in the Southwest Independent School District suffered significant water damage during last week’s winter storms.
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Texas public schools will not be required to make up the days they missed during last week’s energy blackouts.
