Jaime Escalante, the math teacher who inspired the 1988 film Stand and Deliver, died Tuesday. He was 79.
Escalante died at his son's home after battling bladder cancer for several years, family friend Keith Miller told The Associated Press.
As a math teacher at Garfield High School in East Los Angeles, Escalante completely transformed the school's mathematics curriculum and pushed his struggling students to master advanced math and science courses. At one point, Garfield High School had the fifth-highest number of advanced placement calculus students in the country.
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Make no mistake, Jamie was a fine Conservative!
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