Celebrate the Power of Freedom in Education
Registration is now open for the Yass Prize 2024 Summit on September 12th, 2024 in New York City, New York!
Permission-who?
Permission-less!
Learn More about the application process for the $1,000,000 Yass Prize through the fourth installment in the Yass Prize webinar series
Now Available! YASS PRIZE YEAR IN REVIEW
Apply for the Yass Prize, the Pulitzer of Education!
Do you make a significant impact in education? Are you inspired to join a cohort of education innovators? Submit your application for the 2024 Yass Prize and showcase your innovative contributions in the nation’s premiere education competition!
Rethinking Education Funding
In this week’s Forbes feature, we examine how states should revise their approach to funding education freedom.
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Innovative CTE Model Covered in WSJ!
2023 Yass Prize Finalist St. George Municipal School District is making national headlines for its unconventional approach to trade and career training, and building its own and the first of its kind K-12 Makerspace Building.
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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.
I’m dreaming bigger, bolder, and more bodacious [because of the Yass Prize].
It has helped me raise the ceiling on what’s possible.
Being a part of the [Yass] family confirmed that what I'm doing is right,
focusing on what we know is important for kids really works, and having a network of people now that also agree was super huge.
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.
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.
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.
The foundation of any society is a good education.
Having the status of Yass Prize Semifinalist has opened doors that we’ve been knocking on for years,
including public recognition from our Governor and partnership conversations with other education innovators from around the country.
Everyone knows that without great education, our nation suffers.
Great education is a vital link for students to become successful citizens.
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.
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.
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.
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.