There have been a number of educational focused features released in Office 365 over the past few months. My organization is a non-profit, one third of which is a school for kids with disabilities. Because our subscription is marked as a "non-profit" type, we can't use any of the educational features for the school. The Classroom feature, Forms, and properly functioning Class Notebooks are not available.
As of now, there is no supported way of switching from our subscription to an educational subscription. The only was is to delete our entire account, create a new one, and try to repopulate the data. As there's no way to back up user settings, groups, SharePoint sites, Skype settings, or anything other than files and email archives, it's a completely unworkable solution.
Any of three options would work, in order from worst to best.
1. A way of backing up everything on an Office 365 deployment and restoring to a new one.
2. Making the Classroom and any other special feature available to all subscription types.
3. An easy way to change subscription or make different types co-exist on the same deployment.
As things stand now, it's literally no easier to stay with Office 365 than it is to migrate to Google Apps for Education.
