>Blockchain would be beneficial for managing the data
>in the employee and education portals
What data?
Storing general data like files in blockchain is suicide. S3 does it better.

>Building in a DApp style method would allow scalability and functionality without a small business needing to manage much of the process.
Building in a traditional app style allow all of this too.

I'm still not getting what advantages blockchain gives you. Do you have any source code or at least detailed use case scenario?