Having worked in a public educational setting before, I would recommend finding out whether you actually have an option to do something yourself before spending

Having worked in a public educational setting before, I would recommend finding out whether you actually have an option to do something yourself before spending a lot of time on it. My experience tells me that the people running the system you're trying to get away from are likely to be territorial; it's extremely disappointing to get really invested in making something better only to have politics scuttle the effort. There may be also be regulatory things (ferpa, etc) your solution would have to comply with. Aside from that, your request is more ambiguous than you realize. You're going to have to be more specific about what you're trying to do.