JR Ball: This state needs an education

    The late, great Steve Carter—throughout his 12-year career as a state legislator, including a stint as chairman of the House Education Committee—ardently set out to make literacy and early childhood education top priorities in Louisiana. He lobbied his fellow state legislators. Horse-traded votes. Wooed the governor.


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