LOS ANGELES - A former Los Angeles Unified assistant principal from Nigeria who alleged he was demoted to teacher because he is black settled his lawsuit with the district today while his case was in mid-trial.

The settlement of Paul Sanusi's lawsuit came after a week of testimony and 1 1/2 days of negotiations that began after his lawyer, Jeffrey A. Rager, had finished the presentation of his case to a Los Angeles Superior Court jury of six men and six women - none of whom were black.

Terms of the settlement were not disclosed.

Sanusi, 54, filed suit filed last June against the school district and his former boss, Maria Antonia Borges, a Latina.

The Hawthorne resident, a native of Nigeria, worked at Los Angeles Academy Middle School in South Los Angeles under Borges for a year, beginning in May 2004. Sanusi headed the school's Beyond the Bell program, aimed at students in danger of academic failure.

Borges considered Sanusi's work to be poor and disorganized, the district's court papers state. The district's position was that Sanusi resigned in September 2005 rather than accept a transfer to another school as a teacher.

In his testimony earlier this week, Sanusi described Borges as someone who was "completely out of control," saying she yelled at him no less than two dozen times while they worked together.

Sanusi told jurors that instead of helping him in his work, in which he supervised classes held on Saturdays, Borges did everything she could to see that he failed.

"She was undermining my program, bit by bit" Sanusi testified. "I realized that this was my supervisor, and I wanted to work with her. But it went sour and bad and was just a no-win situation."

Borges convinced other administrators at the school that Sanusi was not doing a good job, he testified.

Sanusi said he became so frustrated with Borges that he invited her to fire him.

Sanusi, in recounting for the jury a meeting he had with Borges to address his grievances, said he told her, "No matter what I do, nothing seems to satisfy you. If you want to fire me, go ahead."

Another black administrator, Carole Watts, testified earlier in the trial that she worked as an assistant principal for Borges when both were assigned to Bethune Middle School, also in South Los Angeles.

Watts said she also believed Borges treated her different because she is black. Borges gave her the worst evaluations of her career as an educator and did little to improve the poor communication between them, Watts said.

Watts also testified that Borges believed black teachers had accents that were "too thick" for some students to understand.