Bill Zeeble
Senior ReporterBill Zeeble has been a full-time reporter at 四虎影院 since 1992, covering everything from medicine to the Mavericks and education to environmental issues.
He鈥檚 won numerous awards over the years, with top honors from the Dallas Press Club, Texas Medical Association, the Dallas and Texas Bar Associations, the American Diabetes Association and a national health reporting grant from the Kaiser Family Foundation.
Zeeble was born in Philadelphia, Pa. and grew up in the nearby suburb of Cherry Hill, NJ, where he became an accomplished timpanist and drummer. Heading to college near Chicago on a scholarship, he fell in love with public radio, working at the college classical/NPR station, and he has pursued public radio ever since.
His first real radio gig was with a classical station in Corpus Christi, where the new Texan was dubbed 鈥淏illy Ted鈥�; he was also a manager at WNO-FM in New Orleans.
Several stories he covered on television for 四虎影院 13 helped homeowners avoid losing their homes.
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Members of the House Education Committee on Tuesday heard testimony on a bill that would ban Diversity, Equity and Inclusion programs in Texas鈥� K-12 schools. -
Dallas ISD鈥檚 deficit of $187 million should be down to $128 million by the next fiscal year after the districts cut positions, services, and supplies. Now it waits for state lawmakers to increase state education funding after they passed a bill creating Education Savings Accounts, which will send public dollars to private schools. -
The UT System regents voted unanimously to name Rutgers executive VP for Academic Affairs Prabhas Moghe to be UTD鈥檚 next president. Outgoing President Richard Benson said last August he鈥檇 return to a faculty role after the 2024-25 school year. -
In her state of the district address, Dallas ISD Superintendent Stephanie Elizalde said the district is strong, thanks to its employees. That鈥檚 even though the state recently lowered the district鈥檚 grade from a B to a C.
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Attorney General Ken Paxton's office dismissed a lawsuit that alleged Coppell ISD was teaching critical race theory in violation of state law. The district sought sanctions, saying the lawsuit was based on videos that were "heavily edited and manipulated so to be grossly misleading.鈥� -
More than $4.5 billion in school bond proposals from North Texas districts were on the May 3 ballot. Nearly half came from Celina ISD alone. -
More than $4.5 billion in school bond proposals across several North Texas districts are on the ballot May 3. The biggest, from Celina ISD, exceeds $2 billion. -
With the Texas Education Agency鈥檚 release of 2023 A-F grades, most area districts fell one grade. Fort Worth and DeSoto dropped two, from a B to a D. -
The Texas Education Agency won a year-and-a-half long civil case that argued ratings wouldn鈥檛 fairly represent districts鈥� performance. -
If the U.S. Department of Education closes, it鈥檚 unclear how much money Texas could lose 鈥� or how the state might handle a shut-down -
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton started investigating Dallas ISD after a secretly recorded video suggested a district employee wasn鈥檛 following state law requiring students to participate in sports based on their biological sex at birth. That person is no longer with the district. -
A Texas start-up says for districts still unable to put the legally mandated armed guard in every school, its drones could be an option.
