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Currently, Smith teaches English at Southern University and A&M College in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Smith is a graduate of McNeese State University in Louisiana, where he majored in psychology and accounting. He holds two master’s degrees.

As a citizen and in my official capacity as secretary of health for Louisiana, I have experienced both the 2001 World Trade Center terrorist attacks and the 2016 floods in South Louisiana. These experiences have allowed me to witness firsthand the incredible fortitude of first responders and the integral role they play in keeping our citizens safe. The World Trade Center Health Program, with its dedication to mitigating the medical impact of serving in high intensity and dangerous settings, is the type of civic commitment our first responders deserve.

President Trump held a rally in Louisiana on Nov. 14 to promote Eddie Rispone, Republican candidate for governor. He lost to Gov. John Bel Edwards on Nov. 16.

Despite persuasive evidence suggesting that a high-quality curriculum is a more cost-effective means of improving student outcomes than many more-popular ed-reform measures, such as merit pay for teachers or reducing class size, states have largely ignored curriculum reform. Joanne Weiss, the former chief of staff at the U.S. Department of Education under Secretary Arne Duncan, has brought education officials from more than a dozen states to Louisiana in her capacity as a consultant to the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO). In the next classroom I visit, accompanied by principal Jason Beber, 4th graders are working on a reading comprehension exercise on geology, part of “The Changing Earth” unit of the Core Knowledge Language Arts program, which the district has adopted in grades K–5. The state’s landmark 1993 Education Reform Act introduced not only high academic standards, accountability, and enhanced school choice, but curriculum frameworks with a subject-by-subject outline of the material intended to form the basis of local curricula statewide.