Chesterton Schools Network Wins Prestigious Education Prize

CSN Executive Director Emily DeRotstein receives the Yass Prize for $1,000,000 in New York City earlier this month

Thanks to your support for schools like Chesterton Academy of Annapolis, you have made the Chesterton Schools Network (CSN) the fastest-growing network of Catholic high schools in the country. Chesterton Academy high schools partner with parents in this truly grassroots movement that has put the CSN on track to have 100 schools operating internationally in the coming years.

The CSN's promise to make a quality classical education available to a rapidly growing number of families was recently recognized with the "Pulitzer Prize of Education", the prestigious Yass Prize.

In its press release sharing this wonderful news, the CSN wrote: 

The Yass Prize focuses on four principles known as “STOP,” aiming to encourage Sustainable, Transformational, Outstanding, and Permissionless education. In a press release announcing Chesterton as its grand prize awardee, the Yass Prize explained that the CSN model is:

—sustainable, focused on affordable, high-quality high schools for families;

—transformational, restoring joy, deep thinking, and virtue formation to the high school experience through a content-rich, low-tech environment;

—outstanding, fostering exceptional academic, social and spiritual outcomes for students nationwide; and,

—permissionless, equipping and trusting parents as the primary educators of their children to launch affordable, accredited schools in their own communities, in as little as 18 months.

Prize founder Janine Yass, in a press release on the Yass Prize website, emphasized the strength of Chesterton’s parent-powered model and its impact on students and families. “Across the country, we continue to meet extraordinary educators creating opportunities that families desperately need,” Yass said. “Chesterton’s work reminds us why we do this, to champion entrepreneurs who bring joy, purpose, and excellence back to education.”

Thank you again for supporting Chesterton Academy of Annapolis and driving the renaissance of faithful classical education here in our community.