Supreme Court Turns Down Three Education Cases

High court turns down teacher-testing case, appeal of Ky. tax law.

The U.S. Supreme Court declined last week to hear a student’s challenge to a Texas school district’s dress code that prohibits most messages, including political slogans, on student shirts.

Returning from a holiday recess, the justices also refused appeals on teacher testing and school district taxation of satellite-TV revenues.

In the T-shirt case, a student and his parents appealed a decision last August by a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, in New Orleans, that upheld the denial of a preliminary injunction sought by Paul Palmer, a student at Waxahachie High...