WASHINGTON - With public schools cutting back on spending for physical education, some members of Congress want to intervene, worried that the nation's schools are churning out too many fat kids. The cutbacks are happening across the country.
MCC has donated more than $400,000 to local underprivileged children, providing free health care, medications Ind medical supplies, eyeglasses, dental work and donations to help cover the costs families face when children are diagnosed with a terminal illness. "Through Medbrook's generosity, physical education teachers in Harrison County schools are provided pedometers for their students, along with training program guides and support materials for use in physical education classes," explained Larry Mazza, who also nominated Nelson as a hero.
Our children are becoming overweight and are developing "adult" diseases: Poor diet and inadequate physical activity are among the top 10 leading causes of death in the United States and together account for at least 300,000 deaths annually. Obesity and overweight have "reached epidemic proportions in the United States. The epidemic has hit our children particularly hard: "Today there are nearly twice as many overweight children and almost three times as many overweight adolescents as there were in 1980". In 2000, 15 percent of children ages six to 11 were overweight and nearly 16 percent of adolescents were overweight.
DAILY MAIL STAFF Gov. Joe Manchin wants more physical education in schools, but Kanawha County educators contend beefing up the standards would require more teachers and adequate facilities.
The House of Delegates has passed legislation that would require physical education in public elementary and middle schools in an effort to fight childhood obesity and emphasize the importance of keeping active and staying healthy. The House voted 65-31 Tuesday to approve the bill sponsored by Del. John O'Bannon, R-Henrico County. It would require students from kindergarten through eighth grade to get an average of at least 150 minutes of PE per week, or an average of a half-hour a day. Half- day kindergarten programs would be exempt. The legislation would take effect in the 2014-15 school year.
Yoga makes a difference for kids. That's what teachers and parents say, as well as the children who have participated in Yoga In the Schools since it began three years ago. A project of the Santa Fe Community Yoga Center, Yoga In the Schools brings students a healthy, noncompetitive yoga experience that helps them grow physically, mentally and emotionally. It was the vision of the Yoga Center's former director, Michael Hopp who died in December, to introduce yoga into the public-school curriculum. With the invaluable help of its initial fiscal agent, Partners in Education, Yoga In the Schools established itself in six of Santa Fe's elementary schools. Hopp's untimely death temporarily left Yoga In the Schools without its inspiration and without a sponsoring organization to continue its ...
By Angela Deines THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL Making physical education a cornerstone of the learning process in U.S. schools was the crux of the message delivered Sunday in Topeka to school administrators from across the nation.
Not enough focus is put on physical education in schools. We have the structure, we just don't follow our own rules," she said during an interview with The Weekly Gleaner at The Gleaner's North Street. Kingston office. "We don't all have to be the Usain Bolts of the world, there are so many other areas. The Sports Development Commission (SDC) has all the systems in place, we just don't utilise them and it bothers me. [Carole Beckford]'s favourite authors include Robert Ludlum, Jerome Dickey and John Grisham. She just, finished reading Robert Ludlum's The Prometheus Deception. Like the book's protagonist who works for an American secret intelligence group, she believes she could work for the CIA or the Jamaican equivalent. This, from a woman who once dreamed of being in the army and ha...
Salem is one of two school divisions in Virginia to receive a hefty federal grant to expand and enhance physical and nutrition education in its six schools. Our school board has a long-standing priority on wellness, and our health and physical education teachers have innovated in many areas," Superintendent Alan Seibert said. "This grant provides the resources necessary to build on their previous work and to rapidly accelerate the timeline for implementing program goals consistent with our vision for the future of physical education in Salem City Schools.
CUBA CITY, Wis. - A program that addresses childhood obesity in the Cuba City School District is on the fast track thanks to a federal grant totaling more than $700,000 over a three-year period. The district was one of 10 Wisconsin school systems awarded grants through the Carol M. White Physical Education Program. The grant encourages the development of lifelong healthy habits by improving nutrition and physical education programming and policies in schools and communities. It offers more opportunities for students to be physically active and practice good nutritional habits in and out of school.
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