This is Kevin Roderick with LA Observed for KCRW. These days, to be a parent with children in Los Angeles area schools is to live in fear. Fear that it might all go wrong, that your kid might be ...

EAST LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Crowds lined up at Garfield High School on Saturday to celebrate the new postal stamp honoring legendary educator Jaime Escalante. The math teacher's classroom achievements ...

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Jaime Escalante sprang into our consciousness in 1988 when the movie “Stand and Deliver” opened across the country. The movie recounted Escalante's steadfast belief in the power ofganas; a combination ...

Jaime A. Escalante, the most famous and influential American public-school teacher of his generation, died March 30 of cancer at his son's home near Sacramento. He was 79. A lively, wisecracking ...

Life was tough when 7-year-old Erika Tatiana Camacho and her family migrated from Guadalajara, Mexico, to the United States in the early 1980s. Poverty and violence ruled the East Los Angeles ...

EAST LOS ANGELES There was a closed casket visitation at /*Garfield High School*/ in the same classroom where Escalante taught and inspired countless students. "I had chills going in there. I haven't ...

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 ...

A student of longtime Los Angeles high school teacher Jaime Escalante’s, now a teacher herself, called her former instructor “a master artist.” Indeed, it was his refusal to accept commonly held ...