Jackson Free Press

There's never a slow news week in Jackson, Miss., and last week was no exception. Here are the local stories JFP reporters brought you in case you missed them:

1. Northwest Rankin High School avoided legal trouble last week after issuing a district-wide email reminding employees to comply with a court order that enforces the Establishment Clause.
2. African American women in the Delta are suffering from higher rates of poverty, obesity, and maternal and infant mortality than the Mississippi state averages, a new report released this week reveals.
3. Roberta Kaplan is challenging the provision in Mississippi adoption law that states, "Adoption by couples of the same gender is prohibited."
4. Mayor Tony Yarber and members of the Jackson City Council have clashed over a number of high-dollar contract negotiations, but the key players offer different perspectives on the root causes of the disagreements.
5. Two Jackson Public Schools middle schools outscored all other JPS middle and high schools on math assessments students took last year.
6. The roots of the student-led movement that spurred the resignations this week of University of Missouri's president and chancellor, Tim Wolfe and R. Bowen Loftin, respectively—can be traced back to Yalobusha County.
7. Six members of Cooperation Jackson are headed to Paris, France, to lend their voices and efforts to the global fight against climate change at the United Nation's annual climate conference.
8. As soon as the Mississippi Legislature proposed an alternative measure to Initiative 42, its advocates cried foul, saying the alternate was only there to confuse voters.
9. JFP is live-blogging TEDxJackson 2015. The theme this year is "Lift Off."
10. Jackson State University will have a journalism school, officials announced yesterday evening.

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