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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Los funcionarios de las Escuelas Públicas de Chicago le han pedido al superintendente del Distrito Escolar Independiente de San Antonio, Pedro Martínez, que sea su nuevo director ejecutivo. Martínez aceptó la oferta y regresará a su ciudad natal de Chicago. -
Retired superintendent Robert Jaklich will lead the San Antonio Independent School District on an interim basis starting Sept. 29.
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St. Mary’s University in San Antonio is the first college in the country to offer an online law degree accredited by the American Bar Association. The new program launches in the fall of 2022.
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Chicago Public School officials have asked San Antonio Independent School District Superintendent Pedro Martinez to be their new CEO. Martinez has accepted the offer and will return to his hometown of Chicago.
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Two-thirds of the San Antonio Independent School District employees who tested positive for the coronavirus in August were fully vaccinated.
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“Come and take it” will no longer be used as a rallying cry during football games at the University of Texas at San Antonio.
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According to TEA investigators, the South San board violated the Texas Education Code by failing to “adequately collaborate with the Superintendent.” Investigators also found that individual trustees went beyond the scope of their authority by independently contacting district staff and outside consultants.
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The ongoing political battle over mask mandates in schools has frothed up division in school districts across the state.
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Los documentos judiciales presentados el jueves acusan al SAISD y al superintendente Pedro Martínez de violar la ley estatal al exigir que los empleados del distrito se vacunen contra el coronavirus.
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A lawsuit Texas filed against the San Antonio Independent School District last week is on shaky ground now that the Food and Drug Administration has granted full approval to one of the coronavirus vaccines.
