Yass Prize 2023 Application
Now Open through July 15, 2023

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Yass Prize featured at #SMU+GSV in Dallas

Janine Yass visits 2022 Yass Prize Finalist Dr. Steve Perry and Capital Prep in Bridgeport, CT

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Brookyn-based Awardee Breaks Ground on $60M Community Campus

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Yass Prize Roadshow Continues

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

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

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Members of the Yass Prize community are making waves.

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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!

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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

Oakmont Education, a 2022 Yass Prize finalist, makes a significant impact by offering dropout recovery and industry-leading certifications to over 2,500 students in Ohio who would otherwise not complete their education, providing training in various skilled trades and business areas.
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Sailing to the Future

SailFuture, a 2022 Yass Prize finalist, offers a full time immersive lab experience 2 times per week in real world construction, maritime, and culinary projects. Come see what’s happening by clicking here!
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Storming Through the Midwest to Uncover What Makes Discovery the Best

At warp speed, Discovery reopened their doors, reimagined as a school in order to meet the urgent needs of healthcare workers’ families who needed not only a safe option for their students, but an education that focused on putting kids first.
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Common Sense Goes to Washington

Yass Prize awardees and alumni reunited in Washington DC for two jam-packed days to fill the hearts and minds of members of Congress, Governors and their teams with their views on what it takes to foster an environment of innovation, opportunity and success for the nation’s students. 
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First STOP on the Yass Prize Roadshow

Too many students in American education are forgotten or written off. SailFuture will have none of that. Come aboard a school that does more with less for its “forgotten” students where the classroom is on a boat!
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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
4
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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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.

Janine Yass
Founder,
The Yass Prize

What is good for families is good for the school because families want great schools.

Ceci Schickel
Senior Director of Organizing and Advocacy,
Mastery Charter School

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

Unfortunately, the bureaucracy that’s behind the school system is more interested in perpetuating jobs and keeping the system in place, rather than giving children the freedom they deserve.

Janine Yass
Founder,
The Yass Prize

The real source of wealth in society is the human mind, not material things, because with the human mind, great wealth can be created.

Steve Forbes
Editor-in-Chief,
Forbes Media

Entrepreneurs are people who teach us about needs we don’t know we need.

This is the fundamental basis of what we are doing.

Carl Schramm
University Professor,
Syracuse University

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 chance to be part of this group is a big gust of wind in the sails of New Way Global.

Being in this group has filled me with renewed hope and determination to push forward on big dreams for great education for the least served in our community and beyond.

Allan Sherer
Director,
New Way Global

I'm deeply humbled and grateful to be part of this group.

The last month has been a tremendous experience and I'm so inspired and motivated by the amazing work this group is doing. Collectively, we’re working towards a real-world goal and it’s leaving me empowered and motivated to apply what we learn.

Jeffrey Imrich
Co-Founder,
Rock by Rock

It's about engaging families.

It's helping families step into their power — making sure that the voices of families are really front and center in guiding solutions.

Lakisha Young
Co-Founder and CEO,
The Oakland REACH

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

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

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