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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The compensation package approved Tuesday gives a 4% raise to hourly staff and a 2% raise to salaried employees who won’t benefit from the Teacher Retention Allotment in the new school funding law. -
The consultant was hired to help the school board understand the budget and cut costs. -
Trustees for the San Antonio ISD school board have officially agreed to sell the final piece of land needed for the Missions minor league baseball team's new downtown stadium. -
Including last-minute cuts made Monday night, Judson trustees have shaved nearly $9 million from next year's budget. But a $37 million deficit remains. -
Investigadores de la Universidad de Texas en San Antonio quieren brindar a la policía y a los técnicos en emergencias médicas herramientas distintas a la contención cuando responden a una persona autista en crisis. -
The unusually rapid pace began Monday with nearly six hours behind closed doors with the board’s new financial consultant.
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Researchers at the University of Texas at San Antonio want to give police and EMTs tools other than restraint when responding to an autistic person in crisis.
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San Antonio ISD trustees have approved a $541 million operating budget for the 2025-2026 school year, but it doesn't include changes under the new school funding law. -
North East ISD classroom teachers will be the only ones with substantial raises next year. NEISD leaders say the targeted funding in HB 2 limits the raise they can give to counselors and librarians. -
Most San Antonio school districts did worse than last year in Algebra I, but slightly better or about the same in English I on this spring's high school STAAR exams, mirroring state results.
