Celebrate the Power of Freedom in Education
Registration is now open for the Yass Prize 2024 Summit on September 12th, 2024 in New York City, New York!
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Rethinking Education Funding
In this week’s Forbes feature, we examine how states should revise their approach to funding education freedom.
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An Education Culture of Love and Honor: In Piazza with Anthony Brock
“They’re building prisons off of 3rd grade reading levels.” That’s why Valiant Cross Academy, 2023 Yass Prize winner, exists. It’s the best place for African American young men, period; says Anthony Brock, Valiant’s co-founder and Head of School.
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Read what the most successful education entrepreneurs are saying about the most pressing education issues of the day. Whether your beat be investing, teaching, personalizing learning or even politics, you don’t want to miss these news reports!
unCommon Construction Helps Students Build Their Careers!
Check out the feature of unCommon Construction, a 2022 Yass Prize Finalist, in the first episode of NBC’s Stay Tuned Education Series! New Orleans high school senior J’Adore Linzsey discusses how she balances going to class during the week and building homes on the weekend, and her goals to seek further education using her newly-acquired skills.
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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.
Because of the Yass Prize, we were able to add an additional pre-K classroom.
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.
Believe in your mission… Ground yourself… Never give up…
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.
There is absolutely zero downside to being a part of this network by submitting your application and what you will encounter is unlike any other grant.
It's actually mind blowing. I really see myself as an education entrepreneur, but this expanded me.
The Yass Award is about celebrating and rewarding those who make students the priority.”
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?
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.
Everyone knows that without great education, our nation suffers.
Great education is a vital link for students to become successful citizens.
I’m dreaming bigger, bolder, and more bodacious [because of the Yass Prize].
It has helped me raise the ceiling on what’s possible.
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.
The foundation of any society is a good education.