Sacramento Strip Clubs: Deaths Elsewhere
Escalante was a teacher in La Paz before he emigrated to the U.S. and had to study English at night for years to get his California teaching credentials.
At first, he was discouraged by Garfield’s “culture of low expectations, gang activity and administrative apathy,” Miller said.
Gradually, he overhauled the school’s math curriculum, requiring all students to take algebra while enabling those who were previously considered unteachable to master math and pass the Advanced Placement calculus test. He believed in his students and built their confidence.
Escalante left Garfield in 1991, taught at schools in Sacramento and retired to Bolivia in 2001.
June Havoc, actress
immortalized in ‘Gypsy’
June Havoc, an actress and former child vaudeville star whose early life with her sister – legendary burlesque stripper Gypsy Rose Lee – and their ambitious stage mother was portrayed in the Broadway musical “Gypsy,” has died. She was 97.