Jaime Escalante  Jaime Escalante  LOS ANGELES -- Some 600
friends, relatives and former students said their final goodbyes
Saturday to famed math teacher, and subject of the 1988 film
"Stand and Deliver," Jaime Escalante.  Governor Arnold
Schwarzenegger and actor Edward James Olmos were among those who
attended the funeral.  Olmos, who helped make Escalante famous
when he played him in the 1998 film "Stand and Deliver," led the
service.  Olmos said Escalante was "a genius in teaching, but he
was a saint when it came to empowering students."  The funeral
began with a procession from Garfield High School, where
Escalante taught, to the Weingart Stadium at East Los Angeles
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Friday, a closed-casket visitation was held in Escalante's
former Garfield classroom, MH1, to honor the teacher, who
transformed the East Los Angeles school by motivating struggling
students to tackle and excel at advanced math and science.
Escalante died March 30 in Reno, Nev., where