Stand and Deliver Screenplay

This Oscar-nominated drama is the compelling true story of a dedicated East Los Angeles teacher who surmounts overwhelming odds in his quest to turn inner-city students into whiz kids. When Jaime Escalante leaves a career in engineering to teach high school math, he is assigned to a barrio school with a reputation for gangs, drugs and dropouts, an ill-funded school that is also in imminent danger of losing its accreditation. Still, his quirky sense of humor, antics, and offbeat teaching methods mesmerize and motivate his students. This is a play with colorful roles for student actors that requires nothing more than chalk, a blackboard and a handful of desks.