Local News in Brief : 4 Educators Win Statewide Awards
Four Los Angeles County educators Thursday were named 1988 winners of California Educator Awards. Each award includes a cash prize of $25,000.
Funded by the Milken Family Foundation of Los Angeles, a charitable organization that supports educational and humanitarian activities, the awards honored teachers and principals who have made “exemplary contributions” to schools, said state Supt. of Public Instruction Bill Honig. The Los Angeles County winners were among 12 educators honored statewide.
Among the winners were Jaime Escalante, the Garfield High School calculus instructor profiled in a recent movie, “Stand and Deliver;” Lorna Mae Nagata, a fourth-grade teacher in the Alhambra City School District who was the 1987 California Teacher of the Year; Marilyn Whirry, a veteran English teacher at Mira Costa High School in the South Bay Union High School District, and Jewell Boutte, principal of Crenshaw High School in Los Angeles.
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