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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Nueva guardería infantil en Texas A&M-San Antonio ayuda a los padres que son estudiantes a obtener títulos académicos.
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A&M-San Antonio got a $1.75 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education to open the childcare program, which has space for 50 children from preschool through sixth grade.
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Informe externo sobre fallas en los calentadores del San Antonio ISD se posterga nuevamente.
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Pro-Palestinian student groups named in Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's order to public universities and colleges to revise free speech policies to address antisemitism say they're being singled out.
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Abbott dice que grupos de estudiantes pro palestinos en universidades de Texas son antisemitas. No están de acuerdo.
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SAISD leaders initially said a third-party review of January’s heater failures would “take a few weeks.” They now say a report will be out “later this spring.”
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The governor ordered public colleges and universities in Texas to revise their free speech policies to punish antisemitism. He named pro-Palestinian student groups for discipline, including possible expulsion.
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Alamo Colleges reduce la colegiatura para estudiantes que no viven el Condado de Bexar.
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Starting this fall, students who live in neighboring counties will pay $180 per credit hour instead of $225. The cost per credit hour for Bexar County residents will remain $109.
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El 10% de los estudiantes afectados por el cierre de escuelas de San Antonio ISD están abandonando el distrito.