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.

focusing on what we know is important for kids really works, and having a network of people now that also agree was super huge.

from all different demographics, all different states, all different service provider types that you can learn from.

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 is almost like Burning Man for education reform.

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

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.

in innovators who are doing this type of transformational work, so that others can learn from it and replicate it, so that you can actually grow yourselves.

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

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