The 2026 $1 Million Grand Prize Winner

Meet Learning Lounge, winner of this year’s $1 million Yass Prize and the 8 S.T.O.P. Award recipients.
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FREE SCHOOL THROUGH HIGH SCHOOL IN PHILLY

This Scholarship will provide $8,000 annually for 500 students displaced by the Philadelphia school closures.

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On the Road: The 2026 Yass Prize Roadshow for Opportunity

This year’s Roadshow for Opportunity Series was designed not simply as a celebration of finalists and winners, but as an investment in relationships, in shared learning, and in capitalizing on the strengths within the Yass Prize community.
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Follow the Impact

From a bold idea to a nationwide movement, the Yass Prize is empowering hundreds and investing millions to reimagine education from the ground up.
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Janine and Jeff Yass Share Their Why

Message to awardees: “You are the change-makers.”
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3 Philly Schools Awarded $600,000 from Jeff and Janine Yass

An Innovative microschool supporting young men, a historic boarding school for low-income students, and a unique program helping neurodiverse students build life skills were recognized at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia Tuesday.
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On the Road: The 2026 Yass Prize Roadshow for Opportunity

This year’s Roadshow for Opportunity Series was designed not simply as a celebration of finalists and winners, but as an investment in relationships, in shared learning, and in capitalizing on the strengths within the Yass Prize community.

EXPLORE RECAPS
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Monthly News Brief about our Nation’s Best Education Leaders

Subscribe to “Innovation in Action”, featuring Yass Prize awardees who are making a difference.

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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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We have a tremendously transformative model that could stand for a little disruption.

The Yass experience has given us “permission” to do exactly that.

Kelby Woodard
President & CEO,
Cristo Rey Network

The Yass Award is about celebrating and rewarding those who make students the priority.”

Kevin Stitt
Governor,
Oklahoma

Because of the Yass Prize, we were able to add an additional pre-K classroom.

Portia Green
Principal,
Prichard Prep, 2022 Yass Prize Semifinalist

The foundation of any society is a good education.

Jeff Yass
Founder,
The Yass Prize

When we follow the money, it’s ludicrous how this country is getting away with funding education.

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?

Janine Yass
Founder,
The Yass Prize

Believe in your mission… Ground yourself… Never give up…

Sal Khan
Founder,
Khan Academy

The Yass Prize has significantly impacted the trajectory of our organization.

When we originally applied, we simply provided supplemental support services to homeschooling families. Now, we are growing into an education network that provides community, coaching, and curriculum nationwide.

Brenaea Fairchild
Executive Director,
Melanin Village

Being a part of this experience has amplified the access we can give to our students in a way that nothing has, and the access is just critical.

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

Cris Gulacy-Worrel
Vice President,
Oakmont Education, 2022 Yass Prize Finalist

I’m dreaming bigger, bolder, and more bodacious [because of the Yass Prize].

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

Keith Brooks
Founder/CEO,
National Fellowship for Black and Latino Male Educators (NFBLME)

It might be the first time you’re speaking where everyone is actually listening and cares about what you’re doing.

I don’t think I’ve been in a room as supportive as the Yass Prize Semifinalist room in Miami.

Brian Curcio
Founder and CEO,
Rapunzl, 2022 Yass Prize Finalist

The Yass Prize process has created an awareness of the education freedom movement within churches and communities.

It's given us an opportunity to start critical discussions with our congregations, parents, community leaders and members, about the laws that govern education in Pennsylvania.

Pastor Joshua Robertson
Founder & Executive Director,
Black Pastors United for Education

One of the missions of the Yass Prize and the Yass Prize movement is really surfacing best practices in innovation—

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.

Jeff Imrich
Co-Founder,
Rock by Rock

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