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Sustainable. Transformational. Outstanding. Permissionless. Education

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The 32 Yass Prize Semifinalists gathered in Miami for the Accelerator to engage with and learn from the Yass Prize entrepreneurs, mentors, business leaders, and investors to pitch for the $1 Million Yass Prize.

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Join us for the announcement of the $1 MILLION Yass Prize winner December 14, LIVE from Forbes on 5th in New York City!

Arizona Autism Charter Schools named winner of the Yass Prize!

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Yass Prize Finalists!

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education’s hidden heroes who are doing what’s right for students of all ages.

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Sustainable. Transformational. Outstanding. Permissionless. Education

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Meet the Yass Prize Awardees

The $1 Million Yass Prize celebrates the country’s education provider which best demonstrates the STOP principles. In conjunction with The Yass Prize, the STOP Awards initiative provides over $20 million in support annually to honor educators who achieve excellence.

Ms. Diaz-Harrison Goes to Phoenix

$1 million Yass Prize winner and founder of Arizona Autism Charter Schools recently testified before Arizona’s House of Representatives about how she plans to take her model national, and why.

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FOX News Exclusive: Interview with Yass Prize Winner and Janine Yass

Janine Yass, Founder of the Yass Prize, and Diana Diaz-Harrison, Founder of Arizona Autism Charter Schools discuss the 2022 Yass Prize and how education entrepreneurs are changing the way special needs children are educated.

Are you the next Yass Prize winner?

 If you’re an education entrepreneur who is meeting the needs of your students and their families in innovative ways, you could win $1 million! We’ll soon be looking for the next cohort of hidden heroes in education who stop at nothing for their students. Applications will be open soon!

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— 2022 Yass Prize & STOP Awards —

Key Dates & Happenings

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April 20, 2022
2022 Competition Window Opens
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July 25, 2022
2022 Award Applications Due
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October
Quarterfinalists Announced
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December
STOP Award Finalist Celebration & Yass Prize Winner Announced
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The Yass Foundation for Education advances the four core STOP principles: Sustainable, Transformational, Outstanding, and Permissionless education. Each year, the Foundation will reward dozens of organizations, building a growing network of innovative providers that
demonstrate these qualities in their commitment to new ideas, technologies, and approaches to learning that bring education into
the 21st century. The Foundation is powered by the Center for Education Reform (CER) in partnership with Forbes.

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You are in a moment in history that we have never seen before.

Any of us with a disruptive idea have a shot at trying to prove something.

Randall Lane
Chief Content Officer,
Forbes Media

The challenge in education is the stakes are so high.

It's one thing to have a product fail but failure to educate children has enormous consequences. One way to address this challenge is to think about innovation in a "fail fast" model where you learn very quickly what's working and what's not so you can iterate and improve quickly.

Brian Smith
Founder and CEO,
Catalyst Academy Charter School

We may not agree on much of anything, but one thing that is a uniting force that we all agree on is that education opens doors, it’s the great equalizer.

Alyssa Farah Griffin
Co-Host on The View and CNN Political Commentator,

We often jump to the what, without thinking with the community about the why.

Michael B. Horn
Author,
From Reopen to Reinvent

I hope you all think about the fact that the impact you are having, you will never even know how widespread it is.

That’s the beauty of education, you impact lives in such a deep way.

Alyssa Farah Griffin
Co-Host on The View and CNN Political Commentator,

The pandemic didn’t stop our families, scholars and educators from learning, growing and thriving.

Patricia Brantley
CEO,
Friendship Public Charter School

This group of innovators has the opportunity to show the world what is possible for kids, what doesn't yet exist for so many children who deserve the opportunity to be entrepreneurs and to shine as out of the box thinkers.

This group of innovators has the opportunity to show the world what is possible for kids, what doesn't yet exist for so many children who deserve the opportunity to be entrepreneurs and to shine as out of the box thinkers.

Heather Bougeois
Principal,
Louisiana Key Academy

Success happens after many pivots and changes.

Michael Moe
Founder and CEO,
Global Silicon Valley

What has been created here at the accelerator is truly incredible.

We may never know how pivotal this really is for education in America right here, right now. This group of people will work together to force real change permissionlessly.

Rob Blevins
Executive Director,
Discovery Center of Springfield

If you get to the accelerator after the application process, go in knowing you already won.

The fact that you are now with a group of your peers you really get to see how world class the education profession is.

Christopher Simmonds
Principal,
CARE Elementary School

We realized long ago that there’s a lot of money in the system, and it’s just not directed to the children.

Janine Yass
Founder,
The Yass Prize

Entrepreneurs are the engine of the innovation economy.

The work this remarkable group has accomplished is not only inspirational but can be transformative for millions more students.

Michael Moe
Founder and CEO,
Global Silicon Valley

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