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BLACK HILLS PIONEER
Saturday, February 4, 2017
youth not just his pro-life side, but truly to
show Christ in himself,” he said.
The group also got the opportunity to
get up close and personal with the nation’s
capital and visited a number of landmarks including the National Mall, the
Washington Monument, and Lincoln and
Vietnam memorials.
Kessler thought it was appropriate when
the group visited the Holocaust Museum.
He said it was interesting to take the general theme of “this can never happen again,”
that he observed at the Holocaust Museum
and apply it to his purpose for marching.
The capital’s homeless population especially stood out to Kessler.
“I really think I saw Christ through those
homeless people,” he said. “You look at
them and they have smiles on their faces,
or they open the door for you, and it’s just
kind of in a Christ-like way.”
Upon his return, Kessler said he felt especially compelled to further his journey
related to the movement. The freshman,
who said he’s very interested in politics
and interned at Sen. Mike Round’s office
a few years ago, put that motivation into
motion by working to create a club he
called the “Black Hills Students for Life”
on the BHSU campus. He said his goal is
to take a group of BHSU students to next
year’s march.
“I want to help the march grow more,
and get the word out about how abortion
is such a horrific thing in our country right
now and how life is so precious.”
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MARCH FOR LIFE
Kessler and his like-minded fellows
marched down packed streets from the
Washington Monument to steps of the
Supreme Court with a banner representing
the Catholic Diocese of Sioux Falls.
“It was pretty cool to see that the street
was completely packed,” he said. “If you
looked down at your phone for a second,
you could lose the group (you’re marching
with).”
Although he said he was the only college freshman in the group he traveled
with — comprised of mostly high school
aged youth – it was powerful to experience
the march through the eyes of the other
students.
“It was cool to see the wide-open eyes of
the youth (that he was traveling with),” he
said. “I don’t think a lot of youth have seen
the march and the support for pro-life, and
it was just amazing to see the youth open
up.”
Kessler attended the rally and march
with his father Tom Kessler, who brought
a small youth group of high school boys
from the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in
Aberdeen. He said the pro-life movement
is a passion the two share.
“One thing I admire about my dad is
he likes to share the good news,” he said.
“Sharing that Christ loves everyone. He’s
kind of gone out of his way to show the
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ESA
six. Mid Central cooperative at Platte is
being disbanded after its Gear Up management and financial difficulties. The local
school districts are forming a replacement.
An analysis provided by the department
to the Legislature’s Joint Committee on
Appropriations in December pointed out
that ESAs aren’t subject to the same level
of financial oversight as education cooperatives.
Five of the ESAs are also cooperatives.
The sixth is Northern State University.
The department analysis noted that the
Legislature provided state funding to the
ESAs and their predecessor cooperatives
from 2005 through 2011. ESAs also received three years of federal funding at
one point.
The repeal of the ESAs law now is
“clean up,” according to Tamara Darnall,
the department’s director of finance. She
said cooperatives began in 1995 and 1996.
“This language is not really needed,”
Darnall said.
No other supporters testified. No opponents spoke. The Senate committee voted
7-0 to endorse the repeal.
The report from the department to the
legislators included this excerpt:
“The ESA model has largely been abandoned following the cessation of regular
funding. As noted above, the regional
boundaries are now regularly disregarded when DOE contracts with ESAcooperatives.
“Further, several of the ESAcooperatives have not maintained capacity
to provide many of the traditional ESA
services due to inconsistent demand from
the state and school districts.
“The ESA statutes are generally unnecessary to grant cooperatives the authority
to contract with the state to provide educational services. Cooperatives have broad
authority to carry out education-related
activities that support students or school
districts, either at the behest of member or
non-member school districts or the state.
“Following the cessation of regular ESA
funding, DOE does not appear to have a
primary employee with respect to cooperative issues.”
The report recommended changes such
as eliminating the ESAs structure, broadening RFP requirements to cover more
contracts and develop a best-practices
guidance document for cooperatives to
use.
The report noted the department doesn’t
have a staff member designated to work
with the cooperatives.
Other points raised in the report said
there is need for more early childhood
special education instructors and speech
language pathologists.
The full report can be found at http://
doe.sd.gov/secretary/documents/16-ESACoop.pdf.
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