Registration is open for the Target Field Trip Grants program. The program will award five thousand grants of $700 each to schools across the United States for the upcoming school year. Teachers can use a grant to fund a school field trip that connects their curriculum to out-of-school experiences. Education professionals who are at least 18 years old and are employed by an accredited K-12 public, private, or charter school in the United States …

I often get phone calls requesting grant information on funding school playground structures. Here's a new grant that I've discovered. It requires matching funds but this may be just the push that many schools need to make a new playground structure a reality.

Children, Youth, and Families at Risk Sustainable Community Projects

The Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES), USDA announces the Children, Youth, …

CDC is working with HopeLab to support of their Ruckus Nation project, aimed at encouraging physical activity among kids and teens. Today marks the beginning of the idea submission phase of the competition. HopeLab is looking for product ideas that will get kids moving!

Ruckus Nation is an online competition that challenges people to imagine innovative products that will increase physical activity among kids ages 11 to 14. We're inviting you…

State Joins Fight Against Child Obesity

San Antonio Business Journal, July 24, 2007
Texas Comptroller Susan Combs is releasing $20 million from the state's coffers to help public and charter schools fight childhood obesity. The new Texas Fitness Now grant program will support in-school physical education, nutrition and fitness programs for students in sixth, seventh and eighth grades.
The grant program will be available over the next two years…

When Big Hollow School District 38 officials voted to cut lunch, gym, recess, the arts and extracurricular activities, among other programs, they appear to have violated a state open-meetings law and may have ignored some education code requirements, officials said Wednesday.

The Lake County state's attorney's office notified school officials that the board's May 21 vote was improper because the school board took final action on an is…

The Gadsden Independent School District will receive $1.8 million from the New Mexico Department of Education to improve the health and physical education of students in the district.District officials said the Department of Education is allocating a total of $8 million throughout the state to hire certified physical education teachers."We've had P.E. at our elementary schools for about 10 years, but it wasn't regulated or funded by…

The California PE Teacher Incentive Funding supports ongoing incentive grants for school districts to hire more credentialed physical education teachers in elementary and middle schools, (K-8th grade). The purpose of the program is to help address the rising incidence of obesity and its effects by ensuring that schools have trained experts to provide the required number of instructional minutes in physical education. The funds are to be used to …

Wamp, Simmons pump up exercise for school kids.U.S. Rep. Zach Wamp, R-Tenn., joined by fitness guru Richard Simmons, on unveiled House legislation aimed at making physical education a part of the federal No Child Left Behind education law’s core curriculum. This year Congress must reauthorize the measure, which uses annual standardized tests to hold schools accountable in science and math. He said the lack of physical activity among the nation…

The $500 Million in funds provide Districts/schools in California with an important one-time opportunity to invest in physical education and visual and performing arts instructional programs. Funds may be used for professional development, equipment, and supplies for physical education and visual and performing arts in kindergarten through grade twelve.More information is available on the California Department of Education Website at:
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The California Department of Education has announced the release of the K-8 Physical Education Teacher Incentive Funding application. These applications and further information can be downloaded at http://www.cde.ca.gov/fg/fo/profile.asp?id=952

Funding supports ongoing incentive grants for school districts to hire more credentialed physical education teachers in elementary and middle schools, kindergarten through grade eight. The purpose of the …