Does James Talarico See Tejanos? A West Side Teacher Makes His Case

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Does James Talarico see Tejanos? He taught sixth grade on San Antonio's West Side. Here's his case. Before he ran for anything, James Talarico taught sixth-grade language arts on San Antonio's West Side, in what he calls one of the poorest zip codes in Texas, where he says most of his students were Latino. He says watching what an underfunded school, a broken healthcare system, and a rigged economy did to those families is why he ran for office. Now he's the Democratic nominee f...