INDIANAPOLIS (AP) – Gov. Mike Pence is setting up a showdown with Democratic schools Superintendent Glenda Ritz as part of a push for an overhaul of Indiana's education system.

Pence said Thursday he would seek to have appointees to the State Board of Education elect their own chairman. That effectively puts Ritz's job overseeing the board in jeopardy.

Ritz currently leads the board but has clashed repeatedly with its members. The battles have fueled a push by the Indiana Chamber of Commerce to make the superintendent's job appointed instead of elected.

Pence says he will dissolve the second education agency he created that has been at the center of some of the clashes with the Ritz-led Department of Education.

The education overhaul will be the centerpiece of Pence's 2015 legislative agenda.