References in Popular Culture
A part of the plot and Escalante is parodied (a Latino-American teacher named Julio Estudiante who worked with inner city students to choose math over inner-city gang violence) in the Simpsons episode "Special Edna".
The episode of South Park entitled "Eek, a Penis!" borrows heavily from the plot of Stand and Deliver, with Cartman assuming a similar role to that played by Edward James Olmos, although where in the film, the students were falsely accused of cheating, in the episode, the students actually did cheat and got away with it.
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