P.E. for the 21st Century Act - Directs the Secretary of Education to award competitive grants to local educational agencies and charter schools to improve physical fitness education and curricula in elementary and secondary schools.
Requires each grantee to carry out a pilot program for one school year that: (1) makes technology a key component of assessing students' physical fitness and improvement; (2) creates partnerships with local businesses to ensure community support for the program, and their financial and professional assistance; and (3) incorporates physical fitness education (in addition to regular physical fitness education classes) into multiple areas of the curriculum.
Limits such grants to one grantee in each state.
[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2684 Introduced in House (IH)]
112th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 2684
To establish a competitive pilot program that utilizes community,
innovation, and technology to improve physical fitness education and
curriculum in elementary schools and secondary schools.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
July 28, 2011
Mr. Boswell introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on Education and the Workforce
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A BILL
To establish a competitive pilot program that utilizes community,
innovation, and technology to improve physical fitness education and
curriculum in elementary schools and secondary schools.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as ``P.E. for the 21st Century Act''.
SEC. 2. COMPETITIVE PILOT PROGRAM TO IMPROVE PHYSICAL FITNESS EDUCATION
AND CURRICULUM.
(a) In General.--From the amounts appropriated to carry out this
Act, the Secretary shall award not fewer than 10, but not more than 20
grants, on a competitive basis, to local educational agencies and
charter schools to improve physical fitness education and curriculum in
elementary schools and secondary schools.
(b) Limitation.--The Secretary may not award a grant under this Act
to more than 1 local educational agency or charter school in each
State.
(c) Diversity.--To the extent possible, the Secretary shall ensure
that grants under this Act are distributed throughout different regions
of the Nation, and that the recipients of a grant under this Act
represent the size, ethnic, economic, and geographic diversity
(including rural and urban) of local educational agencies and charter
schools throughout the Nation.
(d) Applications.--
(1) In general.--To receive a grant under this Act, a local
educational agency or charter school shall submit an
application to the Secretary at such time, in such manner, and
containing such information as the Secretary may require.
(2) Deadline.--The Secretary shall ensure that the deadline
for submitting applications under paragraph (1) is not later
than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act.
(e) Uses of Funds.--Each local educational agency and each charter
school receiving a grant under this Act shall use such funds to carry
out, for 1 school year, a pilot program that--
(1) makes technology (such as heart rate monitors, body
mass testing, and body fat testing) a key component of testing
and assessing the physical fitness and improvement of each
student enrolled in elementary schools and secondary schools in
the agency or the charter school;
(2) creates partnerships between the agency or charter
school and local business (such as gyms, groceries, and
farmer's markets) to ensure community support for the program,
and local financial and professional assistance; and
(3) incorporates physical fitness education (in addition to
and outside of the regular physical fitness education classes
provided by the agency or charter school) into multiple areas
of the curriculum, such as courses in math, sciences, social
science, home economics, and nutrition.
(f) Reports.--
(1) Local educational agency and charter school reports.--
Each local educational agency and each charter school receiving
a grant under this Act shall, at the end of the last 3-month
period of the pilot program being carried out by the agency or
charter school with such grant funds, submit to the Secretary a
report in such form and containing such information as the
Secretary may require, including information on the
improvements in the physical fitness of students enrolled in
the elementary schools and secondary schools in the agency or
the charter school.
(2) Secretary.--Not later than 6 months after receiving
reports under paragraph (1), the Secretary shall transmit to
Congress a report on--
(A) the outcomes of the pilot programs carried out
with such grant funds, including the improvements in
the physical fitness of students participating in such
programs; and
(B) recommendations on improving the core
curriculum of physical fitness in elementary schools
and secondary schools.
(g) Definitions.--For purposes of this Act:
(1) ESEA terms.--The terms ``local educational agency'';
``elementary school''; and ``secondary school'' have the
meanings given such terms in section 9101 of the Elementary and
Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7801).
(2) Charter school.--The term ``charter school'' has the
meaning given the term in section 5210 of the Elementary and
Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7221i).
(3) Secretary.--The term ``Secretary'' means the Secretary
of Education.
(4) State.--The term ``State'' means each of the 50 States,
the District of Columbia, and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
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Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
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