Parents adore Nick. He has a strong command of the issues, excellent people skills, teaching experience in a low-income community, while also growing up in BD4 and understanding the voters there. He supports school choice, transparency, equity and autonomy. He helped bring a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of last-in/first out seniority layoff rules, which decimated the teaching staffs of low-income schools. He testified in the Vergara case and understands how CA's unusually protective teacher tenure laws wind up harming kids. Nick has shown an ability to raise money and not just from the usual sources. He is inspiring and also brings in a younger, untapped generation of voters.