Kids from other neighborhoods used to be able to enter a lottery to attend, but, now that we are filling all the available spots with our own kids, even winning a lottery isn't enough to give a poor child access to what we have.
Through these efforts, we are making the place, parents say proudly, "a private school within the public system". Kids from other neighborhoods used to be able to enter a lottery to attend, but, now that we are filling all the available spots with our own kids, even winning a lottery isn't enough to give a poor child access to what we have.
She walked toward an available spot and was about to sit.
The Knicks still have an available spot on their 20-man training camp roster.
With all three Senate office buildings closed, most staff members were forced to work at home, and their bosses were jammed into any available spot in the Capitol.
More than 6200 candidates, including almost 600 women, are running for parliament, while 161 mostly elderly clerics are running for the 86 available spots on the all-male Assembly of Experts.
In applying to attend the center -- about 2,480 requests were received for the 1,800 available spots last year -- all of the teachers had to write a personal essay.
Currently, each of the district's four middle schools – Roosevelt, Rosemont, Toll and Wilson – receive 25% of all available freshman spots at Clark Magnet.
DKK-1 protein expression in prostatic tissues is presented as the mean score of all available tissue spots from each individual.
With this caveat in mind, we sought to minimize the effect of binding bias on our analysis by: (a) employing a minimum 1.5-fold change, expression threshold for expression differences to be considered significant; and (b) analysing only genes with expression information on all available replicate spots.
