Camille Phillips
Camille 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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National test scores painted a bleak picture of academic recovery for both Texas and the U.S. following the COVID-19 pandemic. But researchers found that there were positive signs for individual districts. -
Cinco distritos escolares de Texas han presentado una nueva demanda sobre los métodos del estado para medir la responsabilidad académica, poniendo un freno a la publicación prevista del jueves de las calificaciones A-F. -
Five Texas school districts have filed a new lawsuit over the state’s methods for measuring academic accountability, putting a hold on Thursday’s planned release of A-F ratings.
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At a time when many Texas school districts are struggling to balance their budgets, districts learned they have millions more dollars to make up. Austin ISD will receive $5 million less than expected. -
Pretty much everything costs more than it did in 2019. But in Texas, public schools are still getting the same amount of funding they got four years ago. -
If the governor signs Senate Bill 133, school police will be barred from handcuffing elementary students. -
The bill would have given Texas families public funds to avoid integrated schools. -
State Rep. James Talarico, D-Round Rock, said his bill would be the largest salary increase for teachers in the state’s history. “That's the kind of bold action this moment requires. And we can do this,” Talarico said. -
A report on a safety audit recently conducted at Uvalde schools, and a new analysis revealing stunning delays in the medical response after the shooting at Robb Elementary delivered a one-two punch of bad news for the community just before the winter holidays. -
In a message posted on his wife’s Facebook page Sunday night, Hal Harrell said his retirement was "completely" his choice and that he would remain superintendent "throughout the year until a new superintendent can be named."
