LITTLE ROCK (AP) — Teenage students’ free-speech rights have been upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court’s rejection of an appeal by the Watson Chapel School District of rulings that supported black-armband protests at the school, according to the American Civil Liberties Union.

The ACLU’s Arkansas chapter said in a news release that the nation’s highest court declined Monday to hear the school district’s appeal of a ruling by the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals at St. Louis. The appeals court had affirmed a decision by U.S. District Judge Leon Holmes that the school system violated the stu...