YES Prep Public Schools Wins Inaugural Broad Prize for Public Charter Schools

As the winner, YES Prep will receive $250,000 to support low-income student college readiness efforts of its choice, such as scholarships, speaker series or campus visits.

In selecting the winner, The Broad Prize for Public Charter Schools review board examined publicly available data since the 2007/2008 school year collected by MPR Associates, an education research and consulting firm. The review board considered student outcomes, scalability, size, poverty and demographics, and selected the charter management organization that, in its judgment, showed the most outstanding overall student performance and improvement while reducing achievement gaps. No formula was used. For more information on the methodology and review board, visit: http://www.broadprize.org/publiccharterschools/FAQ.html.