Camellia Burris
Camellia Burris is an attorney and journalist from Nashville.
She is a graduate of Spelman College, Tulane University School of Law, and Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where she studied at the Toni Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism. She began her journalism career covering housing policies for the San Francisco Public Press before joining the Miami Herald as an investigative reporting fellow. She joined WPLN News in February 2025.
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Families across Tennessee can now use public money for private school education. Applications for the state’s school voucher program opened Thursday. -
A state program aims to bring more school mental health professionals to Tennessee’s rural students. -
A group of adults failed the TCAP test. Tennessee third graders can be held back for doing the same.Standardized testing begins Monday in Tennessee classrooms. For third graders and their families, the standardized test comes with a lot of pressure. -
A shortage of qualified professionals means the average school counselor in Tennessee is juggling about 429 students — nearly double what’s recommended by the American School Counseling Association.
