Tenuous tenure: Reform advocates gear up for another shot at eliminating the Louisiana law that guarantees educators permanent employment after three years on the job.

It isn’t often that you hear a classroom teacher calling for a speedy end to tenure. But that’s what Holly Boffy, who won the 2010 Louisiana Teacher of the Year Award while teaching eighth-graders at Paul Breaux Middle School in Lafayette, did last summer when she addressed the Rotary Club of Baton Rouge. During a