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.

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

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 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?

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

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

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

including public recognition from our Governor and partnership conversations with other education innovators from around the country.

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

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.

We believe very much that microschools should be bottoms up, they come from the community. They're founded by educators who know their community really well. And they want to design a learning environment for the kids in that community.