Free to Learn: How Alfredo Lopez Fought for the Right to Go to School

Alfredo Lopez expects to start second grade with questions about his friends and whether his teacher will speak Spanish. Instead, his parents tell him he must remain at home, and he begins asking why he cannot attend school with other children and why his family must go to court. Set in Tyler, Texas, in 1977, the story addresses a district policy requiring parents to show citizenship documentation or pay for their children’s public schooling.