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- 05-31-2011
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By Jim Steinberg/San Bernardino Sun
More than one third of all adolescents enrolled in California public schools do not participate in any school-based physical education classes, according to a new policy study by UCLA Center for Health Policy Research. Cuts to physical education programs, as well as exemptions that allow high school students to skip up to two years of PE, have contributed to declining participation in these school-based programs, the brief's authors noted. The study, which was released today,found that the number of teens participating in PE drops precipitously with age, from 95 percent at age 12 to just 23 percent at age 17. Using data from the 2007 California Health Interview Survey, the authors found that only 42 percent of California teens report participating in PE on a daily basis. And more than 80 percent of all teens fail to meet the current federal recommendations for physical activity. (more...)
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