It was a typical June 25 morning at the Bollenbacher home in Morgan Hill, until the phone rang at 7:30 a.m. Tonya Bollenbacher picked up the receiver and got the news that would change her daughter Brittany's life forever.
"I thought it was weird because we never get a call at 7:30 in the morning," Tonya Bollenbacher said.
The messenger on the other side of the phone line was one of Brittany's several doctors, calling to inform Tonya that his medical team at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford had found a perfect match for a heart and liver transplant that would save young Brittany's life.
2. Most district schools show progress in test scores
School district officials are more than pleased with results from the Adequate Yearly Progress accountability system, which show several schools scored positively on state tests.
Two types of results were released Wednesday by the California Department of Education.
The Adequate Yearly Progress, or AYP, is a federal measure, under the No Child Left Behind Act, that looks at the percentage of students proficient or better in state tests. Growth targets are set based on AYP scores. The Academic Performance Index, or API, is determined by the percentage of students in each of the five performance levels on state tests, according to Morgan Hill Unified School District spokesman Dan Ehrler. Both the state API and the federal AYP are calculated using the annual results of the state's Standardized Testing and Reporting Program and the California High School Exit Exam.
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