States Requiring PE, but Amount Varies
June 8, 2010Walk to bus stop soon a hike for Columbus high-schoolers
June 8, 2010Changes leave school-exercise bill a 98-pound weakling
Thursday, June 3, 2010 02:57 AM
By Jim Siegel
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
Public-school officials beat back efforts by some legislators, businesses and health-care professionals to require that schools provide students 30 minutes of exercise per day. “They were able to pick off members individually,” Rep. John Patrick Carney, D-Columbus, said of the school-board members, teachers-union representatives and superintendents who urged legislators to reject the exercise requirement in Senate Bill 210. The measure already had been watered down by the Senate, allowing districts to opt out of the exercise requirement by getting a waiver from the state. But school officials told House members that the opt-out wasn’t good enough because the requirement still would hang over districts’ heads in permanent law, and the state was not providing money to pay for it. A House committee changed the bill yesterday so that districts that want to meet the daily exercise requirement would have to opt into it. The House passed it 77-21. “I am disappointed,” said Carney, who sponsored the House version of the bill. He noted that obesity is the nation’s No. 1 preventable health crisis, surpassing smoking’¦ http://www.dispatchpolitics.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2010/06/03/copy/changes-leave-bill-98-pound-weakling.html?adsec=politics&sid=101
Ohio House OKs Bill for Healthier School Food
AP/ Bill Cohen, Ohio Public Radio (2010-06-03)
COLUMBUS, OH (wosu) – A bill to attack childhood obesity by requiring healthier options in school cafeterias has advanced in the Ohio Legislature. By a 77-21 vote, the Ohio House on Wednesday approved legislation which also would have schools do body-mass-index screenings on students’¦ http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wosu/news.newsmain?action=article&ARTICLE_ID=1658596 But, as the Ohio Senate did earlier, the House dropped a mandate that schools provide students at least 30 minutes of exercise per day.
Ohio lawmakers approve bill aimed at getting students to eat healthier
By Aaron Marshall, The Plain Dealer
June 02, 2010, 5:58PM
COLUMBUS, Ohio ‘” The debate over how to encourage Ohio’s school children to slim down moved to the floor of the Ohio House on Wednesday as lawmakers passed a measure aimed at getting kids eating healthier and exercising more. In a 77-21 vote, House lawmakers approved the legislation, which pushes out the candy machines and soda pop in favor of low fat milk, fruit juices, water and healthier fare in Ohio’s school lunchrooms by 2014. High school kids would also be able to buy some diet sodas’¦ http://www.cleveland.com/open/index.ssf/2010/06/ohio_house_to_kids_run_some_la.html
