By Molly Longman | Phoenix New Times
Carlos Alfaro struggled to keep up in school as a child. Carrie Brown was a star student. Alfaro’s family immigrated to the United States from Mexico; Brown grew up in conservative Kansas. Life brought both of them to Arizona and gave each a deep appreciation of the value of education. Now, they are both passionately involved in the fight over the expansion of the state’s Empowerment Scholarship Account program, but on opposite sides of the issue. Here are their stories.
Carlos Alfaro listened for footsteps inside the house. He had just rung the doorbell of a ranch-style home in Mesa. He smiled at a gold door-knocker through his black beard.
He heard nothing.
The 27-year-old advocate hung a paper pamphlet about education choice on the doorknob and headed to the next-door, evangelist-style.
He was stumping at 10 a.m. on this Saturday in early December as part of an education choice campaign for the Libre Institute targeting the East Valley.
