Dr. Tekshia Ward-Smith, the interim chief resource officer for the DeKalb County School District, discusses the new IGNITE Teacher Residency Program and ongoing retention efforts to address teacher shortages.

Plus, Rose talks with Partnership for Southern Equity (PSE) founder Nathaniel Smith, lead researcher William Smith and Sterling Johnson, who serves as the director of PSE’s Just Opportunity portfolio, about the organization’s new report “Broken From The Start: An Analysis of Atlanta’s Tax Allocation Districts and Their Impacts on Communities of Color.”

Lastly, music historian and journalist Quentin Harrison returns to “Closer Look” to discuss his top five albums of 2023.