
Yass Prize 2023 Application
Now Open through July 15, 2023

Yass Prize featured at #SMU+GSV in Dallas

Janine Yass visits 2022 Yass Prize Finalist Dr. Steve Perry and Capital Prep in Bridgeport, CT
Brookyn-based Awardee Breaks Ground on $60M Community Campus

Register below for our next Yass Prize Informational Webinar!
Friday, June 2nd at 1:00 pm EST

Introducing Yass Prize Year in Review

Yass Prize Roadshow Continues
Breaking ground on a new building and quadrupling enrollment provides increased opportunities for neurodiverse students at SOAR Academy Evans, Georgia.

Janine Yass interviewed while visiting Discovery Center of Springfield, 2021 $1 Million Yass Prize Winner

Members of the Yass Prize community are making waves.

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


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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.
Doing What It Takes for Opportunity Youth
Sailing to the Future
Storming Through the Midwest to Uncover What Makes Discovery the Best
Common Sense Goes to Washington

First STOP on the Yass Prize Roadshow

Latest News
- April 18, 2023
— 2022 Yass Prize & STOP Awards —
Key Dates & Happenings
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.
Our Yass Prize partnership with Forbes and CER has been one of the best things we’ve done in education over the past 25 years.
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