Karen Echeverria, executive director of the Idaho School Boards Association, said the group surveyed its 560 school board members across the state. "For the most part trustees across the state support the major components of this bill," she said, including eliminating tenure for new teachers, limiting negotiated teacher contracts to one year and more. "These are things that we've long wanted and hoped to accomplish," she told the Senate Education Committee. Other pieces of the plan didn't win support, however. "There is definitely a concern and non-support of the loss of the 99 percent protection factor," she said, with particular concern about how that funding change would impact small, rural school districts. Also, 56 percent of school board members opposed giving a laptop computer to each high school student; and 61.3 percent opposed increasing class sizes - the key component of the reform plan that provides the savings to fund the other pieces.