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The Center for Education Reform announced the official launch of the 2025 Yass Prize competition
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From a bold idea to a nationwide movement, the Yass Prize is empowering hundreds and investing millions to reimagine education from the ground up.
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Janine and Jeff Yass Share Their Why

Message to awardees: “You are the change-makers.”
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Learn about the Impact of the Yass Prize

Discover the story of the Yass Prize, an initiative dedicated to celebrating, rewarding, and expanding innovative education providers. Explore our history and the last impact of these groundbreaking efforts. 

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Insights & Innovations from Yass Prize Alumni as Featured in Forbes

Showcasing the most entrepreneurial innovators in education, these first hand stories from Yass Prize alumni highlight the transformative impact of the STOP principles.
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Bi-weekly news brief about our Nation’s Best Education Leaders

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Follow along as we shine a light on top awardees, and how they put the STOP principles in action.
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Press Releases
  • May 7, 2025

BREAKING: $1 Million Yass Prize Launches 2025 Competition

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  • May 7, 2025

BREAKING: $1 Million Yass Prize Launches 2025 Competition

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  • April 28, 2025

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

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  • April 28, 2025

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

Press Releases
  • November 12, 2024

Education Innovators to Nation’s New Leaders: Give Us the Power to Fix Education

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  • November 12, 2024

Education Innovators to Nation’s New Leaders: Give Us the Power to Fix Education

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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.

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Yass brought us together, creating opportunities to create an educational universe within which we can look at education differently…

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.

Dr. Steve Perry
Head of Schools,
Capital Preparatory Schools

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.

Kenisha Scaggs
Founder,
SOAR Academy

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.

Matthew Chaussee
Founder & CEO,
CareerViewXR & BeMoreColorful

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.

Kenisha Skaggs
Founder,
SOAR Academy

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.

Pastor Joshua Robertson
Founder & Executive Director,
Black Pastors United for Education

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.

Wade Moore
Founder & Dean,
Urban Preparatory Academy

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.

Cris Gulacy-Worrel
Vice President,
Oakmont Education, 2022 Yass Prize Finalist

We used the Yass Prize to launch a program called Skypod catalyst, which is essentially an accelerator to help other people start microschools.

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.

Amar Kumar
Founder and CEO,
KaiPod Learning, 2022 Yass Prize Seminfinalist

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.

Jeanne Allen
Founder & CEO, Center for Education Reform ,
Director, Yass Foundation for Education

I’m dreaming bigger, bolder, and more bodacious [because of the Yass Prize].

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

Keith Brooks
Founder/CEO,
National Fellowship for Black and Latino Male Educators (NFBLME)

Believe in your mission… Ground yourself… Never give up…

Sal Khan
Founder,
Khan Academy

Because of the Yass Prize, we were able to add an additional pre-K classroom.

Portia Green
Principal,
Prichard Prep, 2022 Yass Prize Semifinalist

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