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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A Nueces County jury acquitted former Uvalde CISD police officer Adrian Gonzales on all charges, ending the first criminal case tied to the law enforcement response to the 2022 Robb Elementary School shooting. -
The sister of a Uvalde teacher killed at Robb Elementary was barred from the Gonzales trial after interrupting proceedings. -
The trial of a former Uvalde school district police officer accused of child endangerment in the Robb Elementary shooting took an unexpected turn Tuesday after testimony from a teacher prompted defense objections and halted proceedings for the day. -
According to an analysis by IDRA, 18% of students who started 9th grade in 2020 left school without graduating last year — a record low attrition rate. -
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. -
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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A coalition of nearly 30 Texas organizations have banded together in support of an appeal to overturn the end of the Texas Dream Act. -
According to a TPR analysis, colleges in San Antonio lost nearly $10M because the U.S. Department of Education withheld grants to Hispanic-Serving Institutions. -
The ACLU of Texas has filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the state's new anti-DEI law days before it goes into effect. -
Education Reporter Camille Phillips wanted to know if a ban on hemp sales to minors could cut down on the number of Texas students punished for vaping. Here's what she found out.
