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

The Yass Prize has empowered our youth, families and community by bringing great visibility to our efforts.

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.

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

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

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

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?

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

we have to find academic experiences that represent neuro-divergent learners, kids who want to learn about gaming, who want to do stuff online, who dropped out of school.

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