There's been "an organized attempt to get people riled up" over his school reform plan, state Superintendent of Schools Tom Luna told the Senate Education Committee. He said people have focused on his proposals to require online courses, provide a laptop for every high school student and increase class sizes in grades 4-12 rather than his proposals to eliminate tenure for new teachers and make other changes to teacher contracts, because "those issues don't get people riled up."

Said Luna, "We must phase out tenure, eliminate seniority and return authority to the locally elected school boards. ... The teachers union and other education stakeholder groups have never put forth another idea."

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