Media Mentions Archive

2024-2025

Headline Description Media Outlet Date Link
En Resumen Noticias interview – Facebook Live
Randy Chavez, Enrollment Coordinator, shares enrollment info with prospective and current Latinx families in Memphis.
Radio Ambiente – En Resumen Noticias
3/19/2025
R. Webb shares info about FPA, celebrating 15 years of excellence, and more with Alex Coleman.
Exclusive Interview with Roblin Webb
WREG interview
1/21/2025
En Resumen Noticias interview – Facebook Live
Randy Chavez, Enrollment Coordinator, shares enrollment info with prospective and current Latinx families in Memphis.
Radio Ambiente – En Resumen Noticias
12/20/2024
¿Dime cómo termina? la pregunta sin respuesta que plantea la escritora Valeria Luiselli
Memphis Reads brings international author, Valeria Luiselli, to FPA and CBU.
El Informante de Memphis
10/7/2024
Memphis Reads introduces kids to authors from around the world
R. Webb shares info about FPA, celebrating 15 years of excellence, and more with Alex Coleman.
The Daily Memphian
10/5/2024
“School threats continue to impact Mid-South classrooms “
FPA – no school 9/19/24 – FPA took precautionary measures to close for the day amidst national school threats.
Fox 13 Memphis
9/19/2024
New Birmingham charter school to open while renovating building
AL opening for the 24-25 school year
AL.Com
8/19/2024
Birmingham charter school gets conditional approval after lowering enrollment target
Birmingham charter school gets conditional approval after lowering enrollment target
Alabama Reflector
8/7/2024
Discovering Memphis: Freedom Prep Parent Shares His Story
Choose901
R. Webb shares info about FPA, celebrating 15 years of excellence, and more with Alex Coleman.
8/2/2024
Freedom Preparatory Academy opening this fall in the Titusville community
FPA first day of School – AL
Fox 6 – Birmingham
7/17/2024

2023-2024

Headline Description Media Outlet Date Link
New charter school to open in September – Looking for kindergarten students and teachers
Birmingham – Now Enrolling
Fox 6 – Birmingham, AL
7/17/2024
Interview with El Gallo 104.1FM – interview about FPA in Español. Shared “what is FPA? Where is FPA? Who are we enrolling?”
Now Enrolling for the 2024-25 school year.
El Gallo 104.1FM (Memphis)
5/31/2024
Salutatorian Kimberly Hernandez and #3 in the Class of 2024, Jady Luis, interview with Yayo and Ivette Butron on En Resumen Noticias and Radio Ambiente 1030AM station.
Now Enrolling and Senior Spotlight
Radio Ambiente/En Resumen Noticias (Memphis)
5/29/2024
Manuel Duran interviews Salutatorian Kimberly Hernandez and her father, Rigoberto Hernandez to celebrate our Class of 2024 gradutate’s accomplishments
Now Enrolling and Senior Spotlight
Memphis Noticias (Memphis)
5/28/2024
Freedom Prep’s Montgomery set to open in 2025-26 school year
Montgomery – Conditional Approval
CBS – 42 (Birmingham)
5/16/2024
AL Breaking Ground Ceremony
AL Breaking Ground Ceremony
WBRC Fox 6 – Birmingham
5/16/2024
AAMU offers over $500K in scholarships to Freedom Prep High students during energetic college outreach event
AAMU offers over $500K in scholarships to Freedom Prep High students during energetic college outrea
WFSA – 12 (Montgomery)
4/26/2024
AAMU offers over $500K in scholarships to Freedom Prep High students during energetic college outreach event
14 FPA students received scholarships to Alabama A&M University (AAMU). AAMU joined FPA for their “President’s Tour” visiting high schools throughout the South.
WMC-TV 5
4/26/2024
Alabama A&M University awards Memphis high school $540K in scholarships
14 FPA students received scholarships to Alabama A&M University (AAMU). AAMU joined FPA for their “President’s Tour” visiting high schools throughout the South.
Fox 13 – Memphis
4/25/2024
Over $500K in scholarship money award to Freedom Prep students
14 FPA students received scholarships to Alabama A&M University (AAMU). AAMU joined FPA for their “President’s Tour” visiting high schools throughout the South.
WREG – News Ch. 3
4/25/2024
FPA interview in Spanish with Gerardo Guzman
El Jefe Radio and Rivera Communications host a job fair in Pelham, AL
El Jefe Alabama and HSN Noticias
4/18/2024
FREEDOM PREP ACADEMY: Cambiando paradigmas en busca de la equidad educativa (“FREEDOM PREP ACADEMY: Changing paradigms in pursuit of educational equity”)
FPA – Overview and Info about Enrollment
El Informante de Memphis
4/10/2024
A Brighter Future, One Smile at a Time: Memphis Students Receive Free Dental Care
Give the Kids a Smile – UTHSC Collab
BNN Breaking
2/26/2024
Estudiantes de UT regalan “sonrisas” a estudiantes de Freedom Preparatory en Memphis
Give the Kids a Smile – UTHSC Collab
El Informante de Memphis
2/26/2024
UTHSC to give free dental services to students
Give the Kids a Smile – UTHSC Collab
WMC-TV 5
2/26/2024
UTHSC Dental College will ‘Give Kids a Smile’
Give the Kids a Smile – UTHSC Collab
Daily Memphian
2/24/2024
Freedom Prep launches K-1 enrollment for elementary school in Birmingham
Alabama Awareness
CBS – 42
2/12/2024
Freedom Prep Academy Charter School coming to Birmingham
Alabama Awareness (Roblin J. Webb Interview)
CBS – 42
2/11/2024
Freedom Prep teaches social and emotional skills in school
Social Workers Special
WLOX – Biloxi
1/31/2024
Memphis educators turning trauma into lessons, teaching social and emotional skills in school
Social Workers Special
WMC-TV 5
1/23/2024