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(From AP Online)
Byline: KEVIN McGILL
After two years of trying, Ronald Coleman was at last delivering his children Monday to one of New Orleans' best public schools _ thanks in large part to a catastrophe.
"It took Hurricane Katrina to get my children in a good public school in Orleans Parish," Coleman said as he and his wife escorted their son and daughter into Benjamin Franklin Elementary.
On Monday, Franklin Elementary became the first regular public school in New Orleans to reopen since Katrina devastated the city on Aug. 29.
Before the storm, Franklin was a magnet school with selective enrollment for children with an…