Title: Teacher Portrayed in 'Stand And Deliver' Dies : NPR
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Content: So before school formally began, and after school ended, his door was open for extra help. And the students came on weekends and worked through holidays to prepare for the hardest exam of all — the Advanced Placement calculus exam. "It was hard," says Mark Baca, who now works with a Los Angeles nonprofit. " But he changed the minds of people all over the world about barrio kids." Escalante's barrio kids became stars, exemplars of what can happen when knowledge-thirsty kids with ganas — a deep desire — to succeed combine with a dedicated teacher with ganas for their success. "Everything we are, we owe to him," says Sandra Munoz, an attorney who specializes in workers' rights and immigration cases in East Los Angeles. She was not originally an Escalante student. Enlarge this image
At the Garfield fundraiser, former students, parents and community members pen fond messages to the teacher the kids nicknamed "Kimo," a play on The Lone Ranger's moniker Kemosabe. Karen Grigsby Bates/NPR hide caption
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At the Garfield fundraiser, former students, parents and community members pen fond messages to the teacher the kids nicknamed "Kimo," a play on The Lone Ranger's moniker Kemosabe. Karen Grigsby Bates/NPR
"But that's what he'd do," she says. "