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unusual facts about Garfield High School



Jay Mathews

Mathews’s book Escalante: The Best Teacher in America traces Jaime Escalante’s career from his native Bolivia to Garfield High School in East Lost Angeles, where he taught advanced mathematics courses to disadvantaged high school students, mostly Latino.

Joe Brazil

He taught jazz at Garfield High School, co-founded the Black Music curriculum at the University of Washington, and founded the Black Academy of Music in Seattle.


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Richard Polanco

A native of East Los Angeles, California, he graduated from James A. Garfield High School where he served as senior class president.