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Contents. Garfield High School (California) 5101 E. Sixth Street. James A. Garfield High School is a year-round public high school founded in 1925 in East Los Angeles, an unincorporated section of Los Angeles County, California. At Garfield, 38% of students participate in advanced placement programs.
The school was originally known as East Los Angeles Area High School #2. In 2006 the school was named Esteban E. Torres High School, after retired U.S. Representative Esteban Edward Torres. [3] The school opened on September 13, 2010 [1] with students in grades 9–12.
Jaime Escalante. Jaime Alfonso Escalante Gutiérrez (December 31, 1930 – March 30, 2010) was a Bolivian -American educator known for teaching students calculus from 1974 to 1991 at Garfield High School in East Los Angeles. Escalante was the subject of the 1988 film Stand and Deliver, in which he is portrayed by Edward James Olmos .
Salvador B. Castro (October 25, 1933 – April 15, 2013) was a Mexican-American educator and activist. He was most well known for his role in the 1968 East Los Angeles high school walkouts, a series of protests against unequal conditions in Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) schools. After he retired from teaching, he continued to ...
Stand and Deliver. Stand and Deliver is a 1988 American drama film directed by Ramón Menéndez, written by Menéndez and Tom Musca, based on the true story of a high school mathematics teacher, Jaime Escalante. For portraying Escalante, Edward James Olmos was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor at the 61st Academy Awards. [ 3]
Theodore Roosevelt High Schoolis an educational institution (grades 9–12) located in the Boyle Heightsarea of Los Angeles, Californianamed for the 26th president of the United States. Roosevelt is a public school in the Los Angeles Unified School Districtwith an enrollment of 1,400 as of 2017. The enrollment peaked at 5,047 in 2007, making it ...
The East Los Angeles Walkouts or Chicano Blowouts were a series of 1968 protests by Chicano students against unequal conditions in Los Angeles Unified School District high schools. The first walkout occurred on March 5, 1968. The students who organized and carried out the protests were primarily concerned with the quality of their education.
South East High School (South Gate, California) / 33.94496; -118.22267. South East High School is a comprehensive four-year high school located in the southeast area of South Gate, California . The school is located in the Los Angeles Unified School District and serves grades 9 through 12.