
BREAKING NEWS
Announcing the 2024 Yass Prize Winner - Primer Microschools
Introducing Primer Microschools, the 2024 $1M Yass Prize Winner, an innovative network is making high-quality microschooling accessible to low-income students in Florida!

BREAKING NEWS
Announcing the 2024 Yass Prize Finalists

Learn About All The Yass Prize and STOP Award Winners!
Important Message about the Future of the Yass Prize


BREAKING NEWS: Learn more about the 2024 Winner and Finalists
Relive the Excitement of the 2024 Yass Prize Announcement from NYC!
In a special event atop One Freedom Tower in New York, the Yass Prize Awardees and Finalists were announced.

READ: Keith Brooks’ latest piece in Forbes
Congratulations to Valiant Cross Academy on their Opening Day!

St. George x Be More Colorful Collaboration in Action

Black Pastors United for Education and Pastor Josh Stand for Educational Freedom

Yass Prize x Forbes Articles: Our 2022 and 2023 Yass Prize Winners


Stemuli Wins the AI for Good Innovation Factory Grand Finale 2024
The Wealth Gap Is Narrowing, but It’s Not Enough
Brian Curcio, the co-founder of Rapunzl which is a 2022 Yass Prize Finalist, explores the intersection of wealth, investing, and education in his latest contributor piece for Forbes. While investing is becoming more accessible, education must still come first.


Future of Education Podcast
Check out this thoughtful interview with innovation guru and author Michael Horn, who interviewed Anthony Brock, Co-Founder of Valiant Cross Academy, 2023 Yass Prize winner and Jeanne Allen, our CEO. Learn how giving education leaders freedom and flexibility to deliver personalized, holistic, and career-focused approach; their plans for spreading the benefits of their model; and how winning the Yass Prize will help.
The Yass Prize @ ASU+GSV 2024!

Latest News

BREAKING: $1 Million Yass Prize Launches 2025 Competition

Ed Secretary McMahon Celebrates Autism Awareness Month at Arizona Autism, 2022 Yass Prize winner

Education Innovators to Nation’s New Leaders: Give Us the Power to Fix Education
— 2022 Yass Prize & STOP Awards —
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.
The Yass Prize has brought together such diverse leaders
from all different demographics, all different states, all different service provider types that you can learn from.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
In a state where alternative education is often overlooked, the Yass community helps us shine.
The Yass Prize has empowered our youth, families and community by bringing great visibility to our efforts.
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.
We have a tremendously transformative model that could stand for a little disruption.
The Yass experience has given us “permission” to do exactly that.
Believe in your mission… Ground yourself… Never give up…