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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Seven groups representing authors, libraries, book publishers, and First Amendment supporters are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to take up the case of book removals in Llano County. -
Boerne ISD is asking voters for permission to access three additional cents on the tax rate used to pay for salaries and student programs. -
Students in sixth through 12th grade in New Braunfels ISD are currently unable to visit their school libraries or check out books. -
North East ISD has five bond propositions on the November ballot, including $400 million for school upkeep and $53 million for technology. -
Texas Public Radio's Camille Phillips reports from Uvalde, where a new school built with security upgrades opens three years after the Robb Elementary shooting.
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Legacy Elementary, built to replace Robb Elementary in Uvalde after the mass shooting, will welcome students on October 20, nearly three and a half years after the massacre. -
A coalition of nearly 30 Texas organizations have banded together in support of an appeal to overturn the end of the Texas Dream Act. -
Los funcionarios del Distrito Escolar Independiente del Noreste han decidido defender su política sobre teléfonos móviles en medio de una revisión en curso por parte de la Agencia de Educación de Texas. -
Officials at North East Independent School District have decided to defend their cell phone policy amid an ongoing review from the Texas Education Agency.
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No firearms were on display among a couple dozen pro-Palestinian protesters at Milam Park, or outside Fox Tech High School, where a handful of students walked out mid-morning.
