Education entrepreneurship presents an innovative way to tackle some of our nation’s most pressing problems in schools.  However, the culture and bureaucracy surrounding the K-12 institution are strong, as it has remained largely the same over the past 100 years.  Surprisingly, there are many advocates for such entrepreneurship and remarkably few adversaries.  Advocates include the business community at large, venture philanthropy and venture capital organizations, foundations, and prominent education policy institutions and think tanks.  Unions, as well as the politicians who represent them, make up the small constituent of stakeholders who are generally opposed to entrepreneurship and innovation in schools.  Thus, the major barrier hindering entrepreneurship is not a legislative committee of powerful politicians, but an embedded culture that promotes the status quo in an ineffective system.  This culture is extremely resistant to change, and policymakers in positions to promote educational entrepreneurship often do not know the extent to which innovation could improve some of America’s worst schools.

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