Cesar Reyes and Carmen Ramirez live across the street from where their two kids go to elementary school in Kearns.
As Ramirez gets ready for her late shift as a nurse, she watches from the family’s front window as her son and daughter skip along the sidewalk, backpacks bouncing, to the school’s front doors in the morning. And Reyes, a mechanic who works early, is there in the living room by the time they get home in the afternoon.
Next year, though, their kids, 10-year-old Gabriela and 7-year-old Julio, won’t be able to go to Oquirrh Hills Elementary.