The Observer talks about James Talarico's rise starting with his time in Teach for America, above all noting that it gave him an early and strong networking system. The piece is also honest about some of the big money that has helped TFA and its political leadership spinoff, and their support for charter schools.
TFA’s recruitment, with its many rounds of interviews and an ostensible audition, promises to field an annual crop of future leaders in education. For most participants, their plans involve this short stint in the classroom before heading off to work in law, campus administration, policymaking, business, or the sprawling tentacles of the nonprofit industrial complex. TFA is less a teacher preparation program than it is a finishing school for future decision-makers in the multilayered technocracy of education policy, one dominated by elites who have historically boosted charter-school expansion. I am a rarity in that I still teach in the city and campus where I did my TFA stint.
The big names include Netflix' Reed Hastings and LinkedIn's Reed Hoffman, Walton family heirs and former NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
Read the whole thing, and realize that, if elected, while Talarico will be an agent of change from John Cornyn, he will NOT be an agent of change from standard neoliberal Democracy.
That networking background helps explain his $27M 1Q campaign haul.
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