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 forOne 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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Latinx students at a San Antonio college are learning to challenge negative perceptions around Spanglish.
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Authorities in west Texas say more details are emerging regarding this weekend's shooting. The gunman was fired from his job on Saturday and called the FBI tip line shortly before the rampage.
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They are early risers and hard workers. Some are the first in their family to go to college. Many are financially independent from their parents. Meet the "nontraditional" college students of today.
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About 7.6 million adults 25 and over attended college in 2018. Among them are a mother of four, a Navy vet and a grandmother finishing what she started more than four decades ago.
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Hundreds of educators from across Texas traveled to Austin Monday to spend the first day of their spring break rallying for increased state funding for...
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As the number of students eligible for the state’s largest financial aid program grows, the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board is projecting a...
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Updated at 7 p.m. Gov. Greg Abbott, who was sworn into office Tuesday to begin his second term, made school finance reform and improving educational...
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The number of Texas school districts with policies allowing teachers and other staff to carry guns has increased almost 50 percent since a gunman killed...
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After failing to pass legislation to reform public school funding in 2017, state leaders have pledged to make it a top priority this legislative session...
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The state commission tasked with recommending ways to overhaul k-12 education funding is close to issuing a final report to Texas lawmakers. The...