State Affairs CEO @evanburns says more Americans believe we'll colonize the Moon than fix K-12 education, and explains why: "More Americans believe that we're going to colonize the Moon than actually fix K-12 education, which is nuts. It's because people believe that policy is so calcified, they think it's not moving." "They don't realize if we could understand where it's moving and where the opportunity to engage was, we could actually make real change happen." "The first obstacle we had to fix was how do you take all the information that's all over the place? A lot of it's not online. A lot of it's disparate. And build that into one knowledge graph where everything's connected." "Who are the elected officials? What are all the hearings? What's all the legislation that's happening?" "Then we invested in journalists that we actually put in state houses around the country to do nonpartisan coverage of the things that aren't captured in data. We also put folks that work in the data space in state houses, gathering data that's not publicly available online."