Yass Prize & STOP Awards

Yass Prize & STOP Awards is sponsored by Yass Prize. The Yass Prize provides significant funding opportunities for education innovators, including for-profit microschools and other initiatives focused on personalized learning. Organizations must demonstrate S.

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Congratulations to the 2026 Yass Prize Contenders Rewatch the special livestream taped at Forbes on Fifth in NYC, where we announced the newest cohort of contenders who will vie for the $1 million Yass Prize This Scholarship will provide $8,000 annually for 500 students displaced by the Philadelphia school closures.

On the Road: The 2026 Yass Prize Roadshow for Opportunity This year’s Roadshow for Opportunity Series was designed not simply as a celebration of finalists and winners, but as an investment in relationships, in shared learning, and in capitalizing on the strengths within the Yass Prize community.

From a bold idea to a nationwide movement, the Yass Prize is empowering hundreds and investing millions to reimagine education from the ground up. Janine and Jeff Yass Share Their Why Message to awardees: “You are the change-makers.

” On the Road: The 2026 Yass Prize Roadshow for Opportunity This year’s Roadshow for Opportunity Series was designed not simply as a celebration of finalists and winners, but as an investment in relationships, in shared learning, and in capitalizing on the strengths within the Yass Prize community. Monthly News Brief about our Nation’s Best Education Leaders Yass Prize Alumni Featured on Forbes.

com Timely, thought-provoking, relevant content from Yass Prize alumni contributors on Forbes. com: Explore how innovation, opportunity, and freedom are reshaping education. Learn more about the real-world impact of the STOP principles in action.

26 Education Innovators Named Contenders for $1 Million Yass Prize 26 Education Innovators Named Contenders for $1 Million Yass Prize Senator Bill Cassidy highlights Pepin Academy and Trinity School at U.S. Senate HELP Committee meeting Senator Bill Cassidy highlights Pepin Academy and Trinity School at U.S. Senate HELP Committee meeting The Race Is On: $1 Million Yass Prize Closes Applications with Unprecedented Competition The Race Is On: $1 Million Yass Prize Closes Applications with Unprecedented Competition 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.

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.

Founder & Executive Director, 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.

Capital Preparatory Schools 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. 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. Rapunzl, 2022 Yass Prize Finalist 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.

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.

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.

Founder & CEO, Center for Education Reform , Director, Yass Foundation for Education 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 foundation of any society is a good education.

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. Oakmont Education, 2022 Yass Prize Finalist 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.

Founder & Executive Director, Black Pastors United 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. We'd love to hear from you! Please fill out the form and we'll get back to you as soon as possible.

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