U.S. Department of Education Awards More Than $27 Million to School Districts, Community Organizations for Physical Education and Nutrition Education
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The U.S. Department of Education today awarded 56 grants totaling $27 million to school districts and community organizations who plan to implement comprehensive physical fitness and nutrition programs for their students through the Carol M. White Physical Education Program (PEP). Since the program began in 2001, the department has awarded more than $620 million in funding to expand and improve physical and nutrition education programs across the country for students in kindergarten through high school.
“Exercise and good nutrition make for happier, healthier, more attentive and more productive students,” said U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan. “These grants will help students strengthen their bodies and in so doing, inspire their minds to confront the challenges that face them both inside the classroom and out.”
Grant recipients must implement programs that help students make progress toward meeting their state standards for physical education. The programs must offer instruction in healthy eating habits and good nutrition. Among the types of activities that the grants support is instruction in motor skills that support a lifelong healthy lifestyle. And, opportunities for professional development for teachers of physical education to stay abreast of the latest research and trends in the field of physical education.
The Office of Safe and Healthy Students, which manages PEP, supports efforts to create safe schools, ensure the health and well-being of students, teach students good citizenship and character, respond to crises, and prevent drug and alcohol abuse. For additional information on the PEP grant program, visit http://www2.ed.gov/programs/whitephysed/index.html.
FY2012 Carol M. White Physical Education Program (PEP) Grant Recipients
State | Applicant Name | Amount |
AK | Yukon-Koyukuk School District | $401,525 |
AR | Hoxie School District #46 | $291,387 |
AZ | Pima Prevention Partnership | $225,527 |
AZ | Santa Cruz Regional School District | $740,073 |
AZ | Sunnyside Unified School District -- Student Services | $631,464 |
CA | Alvord Unified School District -- Special Projects | $664,686 |
CA | Anderson Valley Unified School District | $239,344 |
CA | Chico Unified School District | $731,215 |
CA | Dinuba Unified School District | $748,184 |
CA | Four Winds of Indian Education, Inc. | $655,288 |
CA | Los Angeles County Office of Education -- SHaPE | $880,266 |
CA | Sanger Unified School District | $461,756 |
CT | Consolidated School District of New Britain | $663,050 |
CT | Education Connection, Litchfield | $345,477 |
GA | Newton County Board of Education -- Curriculum | $408,951 |
IA | Clear Creek Amana Community School District | $297,552 |
IN | Liberty-Perry School Corporation | $412,984 |
IN | YMCA of Southern Indiana | $548,467 |
KS | Unified School District #498 Marshall County | $349,217 |
MD | United Way of the National Capital Area | $761,182 |
MI | Eastern Upper Peninsula Intermediate School District | $452,392 |
MN | Fridley Public School District 14 | $431,611 |
MN | Warren-Alvarado-Oslo ISD 2176 – School District | $625,476 |
MO | Board of Education of the City of St. Louis | $744,987 |
MS | Corinth School District | $409,066 |
NC | Camden County Board of Education – Camden | $726,295 |
NC | Genesis Project Family Wellness Center | $428,951 |
NC | Rockingham County Schools | $688,728 |
NC | Young Men’s Christian Association of Northwest North Carolina | $273,662 |
ND | Circle of Nations Wahpeton Indian School | $530,274 |
NE | Papillion-La Vista School District | $251,825 |
NY | Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake Central School District | $507,624 |
NY | Great Neck Public Schools | $483,390 |
NY | Kenmore-Tonawanda Union Free School District | $233,615 |
NY | Maryvale High School | $564,961 |
NY | North Babylon School District | $495,424 |
NY | North Tonawanda City Schools | $724,362 |
NY | Portville Central School District | $318,670 |
NY | Sodus Central School District | $235,296 |
NY | The After-School Corporation | $479,414 |
OH | Logan Hocking Local Schools | $383,322 |
OH | Meigs Local School District | $360,282 |
OK | Boys and Girls Club of Ada | $202,748 |
OK | Newcastle Public Schools | $644,711 |
OR | Rainier School District 13 | $269,899 |
TN | Maury County Board of Education | $557,893 |
TX | Alief Independent School District | $308,855 |
TX | McAllen Independent School District | $715,495 |
TX | Northside Independent School District | $1,108,873 |
VA | Boys & Girls Clubs of Harrisonburg | $276,665 |
WI | Chequamegon School District | $369,350 |
WI | Milwaukee Public Schools | $692,001 |
WI | North Crawford School District | $323,553 |
WI | School District of Mishicot | $376,953 |
WI | Wautoma Area School District | $755,202 |
WY | Sweetwater County School District #2 | $417,409 |