You can't make money in education because public education takes the entire budget via taxes. And after that, you have no access to the customer [i.e., the pare

You can't make money in education because public education takes the entire budget via taxes. And after that, you have no access to the customer [i.e., the parent(s) and their child(ren)]. All of that economic power and control is bottled up into school districts, and selling to them is even worse than selling to large businesses. No matter what else you do, if you can't make substantial revenue, you can't pay engineers, and you don't have reliable profit/loss signals to guide your product development efforts. So this is the fundamental problem: anything you do with ed tech is really just a hobby, and this won't change without a massive philosophical and political shift. Why do I think this? Well, I worked doing ed tech stuff for two years and thought, "wow, living on $55k/yr in Orange County really sucks!" That was 2014. Soon thereafter I got a real tech job (that paid roughly double what I was making before, had more serious engineers) and I've never looked back. I'd also like to add that merely creating some new program of one sort or another won't help. The problem is that control over what happens is a political process, full of rules that you have to follow, endless meetings. The result is that you're not free to try new things, not free to iterate quickly.