Incentive to quash

From today's Wall Street Journal comes this nugget of truth:

The desire to learn disappeared down the bottomless well of centralized public-school bureaucracies.

The article goes on to describe the incentive pay plan in Little Rock, AR that was a model for the NAPE Inglewood/Alex Green incentive plan that was so throughly quashed by the MNEA. The local union in Arkansas is fighting back by getting their own candidates on the school board--and they're succeeding. Sounds familiar.