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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!

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Announcing the 2024 Yass Prize Finalists

Discover how each of these five visionary organizations are shaping the future of learning with innovative education approaches!
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Learn About All The Yass Prize and STOP Award Winners!

Dozens of ground breaking innovators from 31 states outperforming for kids!
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Important Message about the Future of the Yass Prize

We are evolving this year’s prize structure and this year’s awardees will be the final Yass Prize cohort.
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BREAKING NEWS: Learn more about the 2024 Winner and Finalists

Introducing the 2024 Yass Prize Finalists: Boddle Learning, Rural Schools Innovation Zone, St. Mary’s Academy, New Orleans, and Big Picture Learning! Discover how each of these visionary organizations is shaping the future of learning with innovative approaches.
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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. 

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READ: Keith Brooks’ latest piece in Forbes

What do “Emily in Paris”, Labor Day, and workplace satisfaction have in common? Read National Fellowship for Black and Latino Male Educators Founder and CEO Keith Brooks’ latest in Forbes.
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Congratulations to Valiant Cross Academy on their Opening Day!

2024 Yass Prize Winner, Valiant Cross Academy, opened their doors to a brand new Kindergarten and 1st Grade class on their newest campus in downtown Montgomery!
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St. George x Be More Colorful Collaboration in Action

Two 2023 semifinalists – St. George Municipal School District and Be More Colorful – are teaming up with one another to bring virtual reality career exploration to the forefront of learning in Maine.
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Black Pastors United for Education and Pastor Josh Stand for Educational Freedom

Pastor Josh, founder of Black Pastors United for Education and 2023 finalist, implores Governor Shapiro of Pennsylvania to support education freedom in his opinion editorial.
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Yass Prize x Forbes Articles: Our 2022 and 2023 Yass Prize Winners

Read what the 2022 and 2023 Yass Prize winners, Diana Diaz Harrison and Anthony Brock, have to say about how education entrepreneurs are preparing students for careers and adopting diverse school models to ensure student success.
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Stemuli Wins the AI for Good Innovation Factory Grand Finale 2024

At the AI for Good Global Summit, the AI start-up Stemuli with their groundbreaking generative metaverse gaming platform was declared the winner of the Innovation Factory Grand Finale in Geneva, Switzerland. The winner and 2021 Yass Prize Finalist – Stemuli, is reimagining education with AI-tailored learning and immersive career training.
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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.

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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.

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The Yass Prize @ ASU+GSV 2024!

The Yass Prize returned to the ASU+GSV Summit in full force in 2024! From interviews with the likes of education leaders, professional athletes, and students, to expanding the Yass Prize community, spreading “Rays of Innovation” across the education landscape, the excitement and spirit of collaboration were palpable.
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— 2022 Yass Prize & STOP Awards —

Key Dates & Happenings

1
April 20, 2022
2022 Competition Window Opens
2
July 25, 2022
2022 Award Applications Due
3
October
Quarterfinalists Announced
4
December
STOP Award Finalist Celebration & Yass Prize Winner Announced
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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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The Yass Award is about celebrating and rewarding those who make students the priority.”

Kevin Stitt
Governor,
Oklahoma

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

Sal Khan
Founder,
Khan Academy

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.

Diana Diaz-Harrison
Founder,
Arizona Autism Charter Schools

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.

Dr. LeDonna Griffin
Founder & Executive Director,
Leaders to Legends

The foundation of any society is a good education.

Jeff Yass
Founder,
The Yass Prize

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.

Francis X. Suarez
Mayor,
City of Miami

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

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.

Brian Patrick King
President,
Father Judge High School, 2022 Yass Prize Semifinalist

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

One of the missions of the Yass Prize and the Yass Prize movement is really surfacing best practices in innovation—

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.

Jeff Imrich
Co-Founder,
Rock by Rock

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

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