1.   His pragmatic view of public education comes from years of working in city schools.

2.   A dozen or more teachers in city schools may lose their jobs, maybe more.

3.   As a result it is difficult to separate the problems minority students face from the problems all poor students face in aging, often underfunded city schools.

4.   Arthur A. Benson, a lawyer for the school district, said he hoped that the state would not abandon city schools.

5.   As city schools struggle to pull low achievers up to basic standards, those who are already doing well are often overlooked.

6.   As middle-class families have left for suburban parishes, the city schools have been largely filled by poor minority students who are not Catholic.

7.   At the Neighborhood House, the test scores are starting to look less like the results of a city school, and more like those from an affluent suburb.

8.   At that point, the spokesman said, the department will decide if she will teach in another city school or lose her job.

9.   Benson, however, conceded that the ruling did not bode well for the suburban transfer program, which has attracted white students into city schools in recent years.

10.   Beyond remedying the racial disparity, the desegregation plan spurred some improvement in city schools, including renovation of buildings and the reduction of class sizes.