Heime escalante biography

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    Born
    31 December 1930
    La Paz, Bolivia
    Died
    30 March 2010
    Roseville, California, USA
    Summary
    Jaime Escalante was a high school mathematics teacher in both his native Bolivia and in the United States.

    He became famous when his students became so successful they were accused of cheating, leading to the 1988 film 'Stand and Deliver'.

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    Jaime Escalante's full name was Jaime Alfonso Escalante Gutiérrez but he was known as Jaime Escalante. He was the son of Zenobio Escalante Rodríguez and Sara Gutiérrez Valle, both of whom were teachers at elementary schools in the town of Achacachi.

    They had five children, with Jaime the second eldest of them. He was born in the Sopocachi area of the city of La Paz rather than Achacachi since his mother thought the medical facilities better there and went to stay with relations shortly before his birth.

    His siblings were Olimpia (born about 1928), Bertha (born about 1934) and the twins Félix and Raúl (born a