51.   In addition, many city schools have been struggling to meet the easier standards of the old test.

52.   In city schools, say sociologists, students are more prone to scatter when the last bell rings, to their neighborhood and other sets of friends.

53.   In education the city has historically received less state aid than it is entitled to, based on the proportion of students in the state attending city schools.

54.   In New York earlier this year, a judge found the state system unconstitutional because it results in less money for city schools compared with suburban ones.

55.   It is not the inner-city schools and the poor who produce violent youth -- it is our society.

56.   It will be very difficult for the mayor to cut funds for city schools, for example, but we are glad of that.

57.   It was unclear precisely what the ruling would mean for city schools.

58.   LAUSD officials acknowledged that decreasing class sizes increased the number of emergency credentialed teachers, and that most of these teachers work in the cities poorest schools.

59.   Many city schools are doing a poor job, but the voucher plan will do little to improve them.

60.   Most have been teaching for more than six years in city schools.