Chris Spalatin for School Board District 7

Every School Worth Choosing

Chris Spalatin has built his career connecting people, businesses, and communities to the resources and opportunities they need to succeed. Since moving to Baton Rouge, he has worked to strengthen small businesses and expand opportunity across the Capital Region. Now he wants to bring that same approach to our schools.


At the Baton Rouge Area Chamber, Chris worked with entrepreneurs, employers, and community partners to help people turn ideas into opportunity. That experience reinforced something he believes deeply: great schools are essential to a great city. Chris and his wife, Lindi, are raising their two children in District 7 and are committed to Baton Rouge and its future.


Chris is running because he believes Baton Rouge's public schools are making real progress, and now is the time to build on it. Recent gains show what’s possible when we set high expectations and work together to meet them. He wants every child reading on grade level and every graduate leaving school prepared for college, a career, or whatever comes next.

Priorities

CHRIs' campaign will focus on four priorities:

Reading on grade level by third grade

Sustaining and expanding the literacy work driving the district's recent gains, with public reporting on results school by school.

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A diploma that's worth something

Expanding career and technical pathways, industry credentials, and paid apprenticeships tied to real Capital Region employers.

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Keeping and supporting great teachers

Protecting the recent pay raises and cutting the non-instructional burden that drives good educators out of the profession.

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Showing the numbers

A consistent, transparent performance framework and public reporting on where every dollar lands, directing resources toward student need and providing more support for schools that are struggling, not less.

“Our schools are where this community builds its next generation of leaders, employees, entrepreneurs, and neighbors. How well we prepare them decides what Baton Rouge becomes.”

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