I also have heard him and found his "progressive" credentials dubious. Trying to make Bloomberg's mayoral control sound progressive? Sorry, does NOTHING for me. My wife and I consider mayoral control a disaster, and the fact that Bloomberg has had to overhaul it three times already indicates he isn't such a fan. Let me be clear I am not one of the people complaining about "teaching to the test." I am complaining about the outsourcing of our public schools to private companies in other states who screw up the whole process. I am complaining about the Middle School application process becoming a nightmare for parents and students and the threat (yes THREAT) of making KINDERGARTEN applications the same. And I am talking about manipulation of numbers and forcing out kids who don't perform well to artificially inflate the test scores. Squadron has tried making that process sound progressive. That isn't going to play so well right now after the pre-K fiasco.