Bill Zeeble
Senior ReporterBill Zeeble has been a full-time reporter at KERA since 1992, covering everything from medicine to the Mavericks and education to environmental issues.
He’s 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 “Billy Ted”; he was also a manager at WNO-FM in New Orleans.
Several stories he covered on television for KERA 13 helped homeowners avoid losing their homes.
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Garland ISD’s school board voted this week to agree with a federal motion to declare the district "unitary” and release it from a decades-old desegregation order. -
Texas lawmakers finally increased funding for disabled students after years of underfunding. Now, the state must figure out what equipment, training and other services that $250 million will go toward. -
U.S. Attorney Ryan Raybould, of the Northern District of Texas, filed a motion last month to release Garland ISD from a 1970 federal order to desegregate its schools, arguing the district has long been in compliance. -
The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board office of the Ombudsman has opened a new website where people can report alleged violations of state law in colleges and universities. -
After a quiet search for a new headquarters, communications giant AT&T said it’ll move from Dallas to Plano, perhaps as soon as 2028. -
Dallas school trustees could put a $6-plus billion bond proposal before voters in 2026. It would be the largest school bond election in state history. -
Trustees approved spending up to $5 million on efforts to bring back thousands of chronically absent students. The district’s chronic absentee rate is 24%, higher than the state average. -
Mesquite ISD faces a $24 million deficit because of lower enrollment and birthrates, inflation, reduced state funding and competition. To balance its budget in 2026-2027, it will reduce staff and make other budget cuts -
At the end of this semester, Dove and Bransford elementary schools will close, despite parents' and students' urging to keep them open. -
Millions of dollars in debt with declining enrollment over several years, GCISD leaders are set to vote Wednesday night whether to close Bransford and Dove elementary schools to save money, despite complaints from parents. -
Frisco ISD’s enrollment soared by the thousands yearly. Now the rise has stopped, and the student population’s even falling, like in many North Texas districts. -
Mansfield ISD this week began taking applications for out-of-district students. It joins other districts like Grand Prairie and Frisco competing for nearby students — and the funding that comes with them.
