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 board of trustees for the South San Antonio Independent School District voted 3-2 to terminate Marc Puig’s superintendent contract Wednesday. Longtime board trustee Connie Prado also announced Wednesday that she would be resigning from the board June 30. -
The San Antonio Independent School District board of trustees voted Monday to give all campus staff a 3% raise next school year. Campus administrators will get a 2% raise, and central office staff will get a 1% boost.
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Gov. Greg Abbott directed the Texas Education Agency to investigate whether or not Northside Independent School District directed staff to vote for the district’s latest bond after a school choice advocate posted screenshots of an email he said came from a Northside principal.
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Bexar County school districts held several trustee and bond elections Saturday. Here is a rundown of their results.
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According to TPR’s analysis of the list of recommended replacements, some of the replacements don’t have LGBTQ+ characters and themes — which means campus libraries will likely end up with fewer LGBTQ+ books overall.
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Texas school districts have faced a wave of book challenges this year as part of a national GOP push to control the way racism and sexuality is framed in public schools. The challenges and critiques have resulted in dozens of book bans and hundreds of re-evaluations of what sits on school library shelves.
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Board President Christina Martinez said Jaime Aquino fit the community’s request for a superintendent with classroom teaching experience who has similar life experience as many of the district’s students.
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Community Labs President Sal Webber said the program was funded through a purchase order agreement with the Texas Division of Emergency Management, and the agreement ended at the end of March.
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San Antonio’s college leaders say we need to increase the college-going rate in order to shrink the Latino college gap. What's keeping more Latino students from enrolling?
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A first-of-its-kind partnership between Communities in Schools of San Antonio and Palo Alto College is helping students finish their degree after taking a break or dropping out.
