Young Women’s Preparatory Network is a semi-finalist for The Yass Prize! The $1 Million Yass Prize celebrates the country’s education provider which best demonstrates the STOP (Sustainable Transformational Outstanding & Permissionless) principles. In conjunction with The Yass Prize, the STOP Awards initiative provides over $16 million in support annually to honor educators who achieve excellence.
Inspired by The Young Women’s Leadership School of East Harlem founded in 1996, this public school network has been going above and beyond for young ladies in Texas ever since. With most in their families the first to graduate high school and attend college, Lynn McBee and her team ensure that there’s a tight-knit community and high expectations among students well past their graduation, which is one reason districts are inviting them to open schools in other areas in Texas like the Rio Grande Valley, South Texas, and western Dallas County. Once they get there, the network identifies unique student needs and meets them, and is fully sustainable with their unique public private partnership that puts the interests of the students they serve above all other considerations.
$1 Million Prize to Transform Education.
Leaders from 32 of the nation’s most exceptional educational organizations in the nation across twenty states learned today they were semifinalists for this year’s prestigious Yass Prize for Sustainable, Transformational, Outstanding and Permissionless Education, which comes with a $1 million grand prize. The 32 semifinalists announced today will receive at least a $200,000 STOP Award grant and will vie for six $250,000 awards as well as the $1 million Yass Prizes to be announced on December 14. A new Yass Prize platform and three week virtual accelerator will help all applicants coalesce to learn from one another as well as entrepreneurs, technology leaders and investors and the finalists will move onto an intensive in-person accelerator program and pitch competition to be held in Miami, Florida in December. The 2022 finalists and $1 million Yass Prize winner will be announced on December 14, 2022.
