Author: Camille Phillips

Public universities across Texas have instituted sweeping changes in recent months, from canceling gender studies programs to directing faculty to sign a pledge not to indoctrinate students. AILSA CHANG, HOST: In Texas, public universities are making sweeping changes to course teachings and offerings. The changes are meant to appease concerns from Republican lawmakers that universities are indoctrinating students with what they consider to be liberal ideas. The changes highlight the increasing control that state politicians have over universities after a new law went into effect last September. Camille Phillips from Texas Public Radio reports.UNIDENTIFIED PROTESTERS: (Chanting) Stop censorship.UNIDENTIFIED PROTESTER: (Chanting)…

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. ANDREW LIMBONG, HOST: Nearly 3 1/2 years after the deadliest school shooting in Texas, a school to replace Robb Elementary is opening in the Town of Uvalde. It’s called Legacy Elementary, and Texas Public Radio’s Camille Phillips went to the school’s opening ceremony.UNIDENTIFIED STUDENT #1: (Singing in non-English language).CAMILLE PHILLIPS, BYLINE: These junior high mariachi performers were students at Robb Elementary in 2022, when a gunman entered their school and shot their teachers and classmates. Now,…