Skip to content
  • Home
  • About
  • Activity
    • Summit
    • Parents Choice Award
  • Awardees
  • Media
Menu
  • Home
  • About
  • Activity
    • Summit
    • Parents Choice Award
  • Awardees
  • Media

Highlights from the 2023 Yass Prize Accelerator

Stay on top of the news with the Yass Prize daily headlines!

Read More

Making the News, Making Waves!

Stay on top of the news with the Yass Prize daily headlines!

Read More

Moments from Yass Prize Summit and Celebration

Relive all the joy from the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and Cleveland Museum of Art!

Watch Now

Learn About All The Yass Prize and STOP Award Winners!

Dozens of ground breaking innovators from 31 states outperforming for kids!
Learn More

Yass Prize Roadshow Continues

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

LEARN MORE

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

Watch the interview!

Members of the Yass Prize community are making waves.

Read all about it!

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

Apply Now

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.

It’s a wrap!

33 Yass Prize semifinalists completed an intensive Accelerator and pitched their education innovation ideas in competition for the $1m prize, TBA on Dec.13. The future is bright for these groups who are redefining and transforming education.

Learn More

AZ Autism Featured in Raising Arizona Kids

How do we raise strong, independent students with autism? Teach resilience & perservance, says the head of Arizona Autism charter network, winner of the ‘22 Yass Prize.

Read More

Yass Prize Semifinalist Verdi EcoSchool on Public Radio

Ayana Verdi of Melbourne, FL-based Verdi EcoSchool, talks with Terry Wright of WFIT 89.5 FM about how the innovative urban farming school works to educate and enlighten students. 

Listen here

Pedal to the Medal in Miami

The 33 Semifinalists for the 2023 Yass Prize gather in Miami for their final Accelerator week for a jam-packed bootcamp filled with lessons in business, policy, education practice and pitching! Hosted at the innovative Mater Brickell Key campus of Academica schools, follow their journey @YassPrize
on X (Twitter).

Janelle Wood Champions Education Freedom in Texas

2022 Semifinalist Janelle Wood, Black Mother’s Forum testifies on behalf of all parents to the Texas Legislature in support of the Education Freedom package. Read more about Black Mothers’ Forum and their incredible work at BlackMothersForums.com.

Accelerating Education Excellence

All Yass Prize Awardees will convene virtually for three weeks starting October 31st to learn how to accelerate their work with the help of accomplished education, business and national thought leaders. Up next: GSV Holdings Founder Michael Moe, the Center for Black Educator Development’s CEO Sharif El-Mekki, and Pitch Advisor Renee Delos Santos.

Learn More

Special Report from Cleveland

The Yass Summit brought together the brightest minds in education and also celebrating an important milestone – the 30th Anniversary of the Center for Education Reform (CER)! We reflected on three decades of tireless effort and significant progress, and we looked to the horizon, eager to shape an inspiring, impactful future for global education while announcing the new Yass Center for Education! Watch highlights live from the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and the Cleveland Art Museum.
WATCH

Growing Media Coverage

In the last few days, Semifinalists have been making big news in their towns and cities. From the St. Petersburg Catalyst, to West Virginia Metro News, to Detroit’s NBC affiliate, everyone wants to know why these education providers stand out! Follow all the coverage here.

Learn More
Yass Center w_ guitar picks

Coming Soon: The Yass Center for Education!

Since 2021, Yass Prize Awardees have shown us what education disruption is all about. And now we’re about to do even more to ensure they have not just what they need to survive but to thrive.
Learn More

Partnering with the Forbes ’30 Under 30

Thousands gathered at this years Under 30 Summit presented by Forbes learned more about the new generation of entrepreneurs delivering 21st century education. Photo Credits to McKinley Wiley for Forbes.

Learn More

Yass Prize Students are Outstanding!

The 2023 Semifinalists for the Yass Prize are actively engaging their parents, their teachers and above all, their students, in their efforts to transform education. Find out what and how they are doing it! Find out what and how they are doing it!

Learn More

READ: Janine and Jeff Yass commentary in The Philadelphia Inquirer

“We are motivated by the terrible costs and daily hardships wrought by the failure of public school systems across the country.”

Read More

SailFuture partnership makes the news in Florida

2022 Yass Prize Finalist SailFuture was recently featured on FoxNews13 in Florida. They announced a new partnership with CareerSource Pinellas to expand job training for students.

LEARN MORE

Janelle Wood, Black Mothers Forum: An Exclusive Feature on Arizona’s Family/CBS 5!

Watch the dynamic visionary leading the Black Mothers Forum, a 2022 Yass Prize Semifinalist, explain why their trailblazing model of education is crucial for Black students and teachers.

Read more

AZ Autism Charter School Cuts the Ribbon on its new Tucson campus

Arizona Autism Charter School—the first charter school network in the Southwest to focus on the specific learning needs of students with autism—opened a new campus in Tucson. Sabria Reid of KOLD News 13 was there to cover the event.

LEARN MORE

Launch Charter School featured on Spectrum NY1 news!

Recently, Yass Prize awardee Launch Expeditionary Learning Charter School took students to the Brooklyn waterfront to learn about the environmental impact of oysters. NY1 Spectrum News came with them!

LEARN MORE

BuildUP congratulates first to achieve homeownership!

At just 21, Torrey Washington has become the first student from ‘22 Yass Prize Semifinalist BuildUP Community School to achieve the school’s mission: home ownership. It’s the same house he spent 5 years rehabbing as part of the program.

WATCH HERE

Mark your calendar and plan to join us for the big reveal!

Yass Prize Applications are in!

Applications represent nearly 27 million students across the entire PreK-12 continuum from all 50 states, and over 1,000 judges will engage in a rigorous review. Next big milestone: September 14th Quarter-Finalist announcement!

Read more

The Yass Prize is the Pulitzer of Education Innovation

“We see the Pulitzer prizes, we see the MacArthur Genius Grants, we see the Pritzker prize for architecture. But for the one field that drives everything, education, there is no definitive prize. The Yass Prize has filled that vacuum — it’s more than just the money. It’s about spurring ideas, it’s about spurring innovation. We are very very proud to be a part of it.”

Randall Lane, Editor, Forbes

WATCH HERE

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!
Learn more here

Latest News

Loading...
Press Releases
  • December 5, 2023

$1 Million Yass Prize to be Announced on December 13

Media Coverage
  • November 20, 2023

Be More Colorful in the News

Media Coverage
  • November 16, 2023

Wildflower Montessori Featured in Rick Hess’s Straight Up

View All News & Media

— 2022 Yass Prize & STOP Awards —

Key Dates & Happenings

1
April 20, 2022
2022 Competition Window Opens
2
July 25, 2022
2022 Award Applications Due
3
October
Quarterfinalists Announced
4
December
STOP Award Finalist Celebration & Yass Prize Winner Announced
Apply Now

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.

Learn More

Everyone knows that without great education, our nation suffers.

Great education is a vital link for students to become successful citizens.

Janine Yass
Founder,
The Yass Prize

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

Kevin Stitt
Governor,
Oklahoma

I'm a Yass Prize finalist from last year.

And through that, we were able to open up our second campus in the city of Wichita.

Wade Moore
Founder & Dean,
Urban Preparatory Academy

The Yass Prize is truly changing the landscape of education options across the nation,

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

Diana Diaz-Harrison
Founder,
Arizona Autism Charter Schools

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

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

Education is one of the most fundamental pillars for democratizing opportunities for success that we have in our society.

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

Francis X. Suarez
Mayor,
City of Miami

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

Sal Khan
Founder,
Khan Academy

Our newest endeavor – that was part of our Yass Prize initiative – we're bringing career and technical education into the school

I'm in the process of going through the construction of a 20,000 square foot $11.5 million dollar building dedicated to career and technical education for the students in the Philadelphia region.

Brian Patrick King
President,
Father Judge High School, 2022 Yass Prize Semifinalist

The Yass Prize is centered around ensuring that this [program] provides you a stepping stone...

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

Jeanne Allen
Founder & CEO, Center for Education Reform ,
Director, Yass Foundation for Education

If you're committed to wanting to be one of the change makers of the future in education, I believe that this is a place for you.

Not only because of the capital, but because of the knowledge that comes by communing with the diverse group of people as opposed to everybody that thinks the exact same way that you might think.

Taylor Shead
Founder and CEO,
STEMuli Studios

Being a part of the [Yass] family confirmed that what I'm doing is right,

going against the common core and focusing on what we know is important for kids really works, and having a network of people now that also agree was super huge.

Kenisha Skaggs
Founder,
SOAR Academy

Connect with us

Stay informed about our latest news and sign up for our emails below! For questions or comments, use the Contact Us box. We’ll be in touch!
Contact Us
Stay Informed
Screenshot 2022-05-24 034828

Celebrating Sustainable, Transformational,
Outstanding & Permissionless Education

  • Home
  • About
  • Activity
    • Summit
    • Parents Choice Award
  • Awardees
  • Media
  • Careers
  • Home
  • About
  • Activity
    • Summit
    • Parents Choice Award
  • Awardees
  • Media
  • Careers
Facebook Twitter Linkedin
© 2022, Yass Foundation for Education, all rights reserved.

Connect With Us

We would love to hear from you! Please fill out this form and we will get in touch with you shortly.

"*" indicates required fields

Name*

Questions?

Email us at [email protected] or call us at 202-750-0016.

Stay Informed

"*" indicates required fields

Name*