Kansas City teachers get $14 million performance grant, but union will try to spoil the fun

The wave of support for school reform crested last week, when Oprah devoted two hours to beating up teachers unions and promoting a documentary, Waiting for Superman, that apparently does the same thing.

And today, the wave crashed in Kansas City, when KCMO schools received a federal grant to pay teachers performance-based bonuses — a school-reform measure that, like funding charter schools and eliminating teacher tenure, doesn’t sit well with teachers unions.