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LOS ANGELES (AP) – The math teacher at a tough East Los Angeles high school who inspired the movie “Stand and Deliver,” has died. He was 79. Family friend Keith Miller says Jaime Escalante (HEYE’-may es-kuh-LAHN’-tay) died Tuesday in Reno, Nev., where he was undergoing treatment for bladder cancer.
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