
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!

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— 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 process has created an awareness of the education freedom movement within churches and communities.
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.
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.
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.
When we follow the money, it’s ludicrous how this country is getting away with funding education.
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?
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.
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 Award is about celebrating and rewarding those who make students the priority.”
Everyone knows that without great education, our nation suffers.
Great education is a vital link for students to become successful citizens.
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.
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.
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.