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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Uno de los proyectos de ley más debatidos en la sesión legislativa de Texas 2025 ha sido aprobado por ambas cámaras y se dirige al gobernador Greg Abbott para su firma. El proyecto de ley 2 de la Cámara de Representantes proporciona $8,500 millones de financiación adicional para el sistema de escuelas públicas del estado. -
Texas' $8.5B school funding plan is headed to Abbott's desk. What it means for students and teachersOne of the most highly debated bills in Texas’ 2025 legislative session has passed both chambers and heads to Gov. Greg Abbott for his signature. House Bill 2 provides $8.5 billion in additional funding for the state’s public school system.
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Texas Senate panel debates sweeping, $8 billion school funding bill after making significant changesThe Texas House originally passed House Bill 2, a multibillion-dollar school funding package, in April. But the version of the legislation heard Thursday by a panel of Texas senators includes several significant changes from what the House approved. -
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.
