
Come and Take It Day
The annual “Come and Take It Day” celebration in rural Gonzales, Texas is where revenge and double-cross erupts.
A successful dropout-prevention project, has generated national interest as a model for schools with significant Latino populations.
Jim Mendiola is a Los Angeles based writer/director. His award-winning film Pretty Vacant (1996), about a Sex Pistols obsessed Chicana punk rocker, has screened in numerous film festivals, museums, and colleges in the U.S. and Mexico, including South By Southwest (Best Narrative Short), the Havana International Film Festival, and the Guggenheim… Show more
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Set primarily in Mark Twain Middle School in San Antonio, Texas, Skipping Up follows a group of eighth graders as they finish their year in the Middle School Partners Program, a new and highly successful dropout-prevention project that helps students who were previously behind catch up quickly. Students in the program have seen their chances of dropping out fall from 90% to 10% while their tests scores in many cases exceed that of their peers, and it has generated national interest as a model for schools with significant Latino populations.