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Jaime Escalante

  • Blogs

    September 19, 2011

    The Great Wall of L.A., Legendary L.A. River Mural, Restored to Former Glory

    Sam BlochThe Great Wall of L.A.'s collaborative spirit of muralmaking on display at its restoration ceremony Saturday. Video cameras were everywhere.​ Ernestine Jimenez is gazing over a chain link fence at a painting of a pachuco in his underwear. It's a depiction of the Zoot Suit Riots of 194 ... More >>

  • Columns

    May 19, 2011

    Victor Felix: Eastside Stories

    Sam BlochThe Great Wall of L.A.'s collaborative spirit of muralmaking on display at its restoration ceremony Saturday. Video cameras were everywhere.​ Ernestine Jimenez is gazing over a chain link fence at a painting of a pachuco in his underwear. It's a depiction of the Zoot Suit Riots of 194 ... More >>

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    May 19, 2011

    Victor Felix: Eastside Stories

    Sam BlochThe Great Wall of L.A.'s collaborative spirit of muralmaking on display at its restoration ceremony Saturday. Video cameras were everywhere.​ Ernestine Jimenez is gazing over a chain link fence at a painting of a pachuco in his underwear. It's a depiction of the Zoot Suit Riots of 194 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 8, 2010

    Public Wake And Memorial Planned For Jaime Escalante

    ​A public wake and memorial have been planned to honor former Garfield High School mathematics teacher Jaime Escalante, according to a Thursday announcement made by the actor who portrayed him in Stand And Deliver, Edward James Olmos. On April 16, a wake will be held in the classroom where Es ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 31, 2010

    Jaime Escalante's Legacy: Success Doesn't Come Overnight

    Edward James Olmos as Jaime Escalante in 'Stand and Deliver.'​It's said that Jaime Escalante's biggest problem with the 1988 movie about his successes with East L.A. Latino students at Garfield High School was that Stand and Deliver made it seem like they achieved academic excellence overnight ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 30, 2010

    'Stand and Deliver' Teacher Jaime Escalante Dies

    ​Following recent fund-raising efforts to help continue his cancer treatment, retired teacher Jaime Escalante of Stand and Deliver fame died in Reno, Nev. at the age of 79. Garfield High School's Facebook made an announcement Tuesday, stating that the former math teacher there "will forever ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 2, 2010

    Family Asks Well-Wishers To 'Stand And Deliver' For Jaime Escalante

    Edward James Olmos as Jaime Escalante.​The family of Jaime Escalante, the Garfield High School math teacher known for getting his Eastside students to strive for better educations, has announced that they need more money to help the 80-year-old battle cancer. Family members told Fox 11 News t ... More >>

  • Columns

    November 8, 2007

    He Stands and Delivers

    Obama at Garfield High

  • LA Life

    May 10, 2007

    Edward James Olmos

    The Chameleon

  • News

    March 1, 2007

    A Terrible Thing to Waste

    Convicted as an ecoterrorist, a brilliant young scholar nose-dives in prison Also, excerpts of Billy Cottrell's letters from prison

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