Education Law

Hats off to health!

BoardBuzz has reported before (and here)about President Clinton's efforts to curb childhood obesity. And now he's honoring schools that have taken steps to help in the fight.

According to an article in the AP, Clinton said, "Despite the rising food prices and constrained budgets impacting programs nationally, these schools are using innovative approaches to curb the country's alarming rates of childhood obesity. Schools around the country are stepping up and making progress."

The schools being honored include Kenly Elementary School in Tampa, Fla., which banished candy from its building.

A fitness club is offered to students at the Pine Hill Middle School in New Jersey, and the staff does yoga twice a week.

The Healthy Schools Program started in 2006 and now includes nearly 3,000 schools and more than 1.66 million students. It provides in-person support to 1,364 schools and aims to boost that number to 8,000 by 2010.

What's your district doing to ensure that your students are healthy? Leave a comment and tell us about it. And for more information click here.

Full post as published by BoardBuzz: NSBA's Daily Weblog on August 06, 2008 (boomark / email).