Camille Phillips
Education Reportercamille@tpr.org
Instagram: camille.m.phillips
Twitter: @cmpcamille
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.
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 and Twitter @cmpcamille.
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The district is planning to find other uses for those buildings, but some trustees are concerned those plans will fall through. -
Trustees for the South San Antonio Independent School District have reached an agreement with the Texas Education Agency that resolves multiple investigations into the district.
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San Antonio ISD officials say their recommendation to close nearly 20 % of the district’s schools is needed to ensure resources are distributed equitably. But critics of the plan question whether closing schools will truly improve equity.
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Gov. Greg Abbott told Texas pastors that he’ll back the primary opponents of GOP lawmakers who don’t vote for his private school voucher plan in an upcoming special session of the Legislature.
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To make it easier to absorb SAISD's school consolidation proposal, TPR has listed the changes all in one location, school by school.
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By this time next year, the San Antonio Independent School District could have 17 fewer schools — with another two schools slated for closure the following year.
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According to SAISD officials, the School Innovation Collaborative broke the terms of its contract with the district — and mismanaged district resources — by placing two of its employees on SAISD’s payroll even though they were not working at SAISD schools.
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The North East Independent School District is exploring the idea of allowing chaplains to perform the duties of school counselors in the district.
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A&M-San Antonio’s Jaguar Promise covers tuition, fees, and a book stipend, for Texas residents in the top 35% of their class if their family makes $70,000 or less.
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San Antonio ISD is holding 14 community meetings to get feedback on the criteria it should use to decide what schools to close.
