(Associated Press)
By RAQUEL MARIA DILLON
Associated Press Writer
LOS ANGELES
Jaime Escalante, the math teacher who transformed a tough East Los Angeles high school and inspired the movie "Stand and Deliver," died Tuesday. He was 79.
Escalante died at his son's home near Sacramento, after battling bladder cancer for several years, family friend Keith Miller said.
An immigrant from Bolivia, he transformed Garfield High School by motivating...
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