{"id":496476,"date":"2010-03-31T21:30:57","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T01:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef01311004d6a3970c"},"modified":"2010-04-01T03:02:34","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T07:02:34","slug":"garfield-high-auditorium-to-be-named-for-escalante","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/496476","title":{"rendered":"Garfield High auditorium to be named for Escalante"},"content":{"rendered":"<div xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/includes\/projects\/js\/schools\/sidebars\/v1\/6300.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The auditorium at the high school where famed math teacher Jaime Escalante&nbsp;taught&nbsp;for&nbsp;15 years will be named in his honor, Los Angeles&nbsp;school district officials announced late Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The auditorium at <a href=\"http:\/\/projects.latimes.com\/schools\/school\/los-angeles\/james-a-garfield-senior-high\/\">Garfield High School<\/a>, which&nbsp;was badly damaged by a fire in 2007, is&nbsp;under construction and is scheduled to be completed in 2012. A 17-year-old Garfield student was&nbsp;convicted of setting the blaze, sentenced to juvenile camp and ordered to pay restitution. The fire caused an estimated $30-million in damage.<\/p>\n<p>Escalante began working&nbsp;at the East Los Angeles campus in 1974 and gained fame for his success in&nbsp; teaching math to scores of&nbsp;inner city,&nbsp;largely minority students and helping them pass Advanced Placement calculus classes. He was portrayed by Edward James Olmos in the&nbsp;1988 movie &#8220;Stand and Deliver&#8221; and was widely called the best teacher in America.<\/p>\n<p>Escalante left Garfield in 1991 and taught in Sacramento and then his native Bolivia.&nbsp;He was diagnosed with bladder cancer and&nbsp;died Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Jason Song<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The auditorium at the high school where famed math teacher Jaime Escalante&nbsp;taught&nbsp;for&nbsp;15 years will be named in his honor, Los Angeles&nbsp;school district officials announced late Wednesday. The auditorium at Garfield High School, which&nbsp;was badly damaged by a fire in 2007, is&nbsp;under construction and is scheduled to be completed in 2012. A 17-year-old Garfield student was&nbsp;convicted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5243,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-496476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5243"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}