We believe very much that microschools should be bottoms up, they come from the community. They're founded by educators who know their community really well. And they want to design a learning environment for the kids in that community.

We don’t want you to rinse, wash, repeat. We want you to build and sustain.

and I couldn't be more grateful for what it's done for us, and helping us serve more students and families.

It's actually mind blowing. I really see myself as an education entrepreneur, but this expanded me.

The Yass Prize is almost like Burning Man for education reform.

It’s thanks to organizations like the Yass Prize that our children are going to have a better tomorrow.

It has helped me raise the ceiling on what’s possible.

The funding is not following children. We're trying to make better options for kids, for poor kids, middle class kids. Wealthy people have this choice, they opt out of their systems easily, why shouldn't all children have that choice?

in innovators who are doing this type of transformational work, so that others can learn from it and replicate it, so that you can actually grow yourselves.

including public recognition from our Governor and partnership conversations with other education innovators from around the country.