Students Pave Pathway to New Math Levels During JEM

Over 600 10th- and 11th-grade students participated in GEAR UP 4 LA's first in-person Jaime Escalante Math (JEM) program since 2019, challenging students to take an accelerated math class in four weeks and get ahead in their math courses and pave a pathway toward taking AP Calculus before they graduate. Of those who completed the program, 81% – an increase of 7 percentage points over last year's virtual program - passed their Algebra 1,…