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Arizona Daily Star
May 12, 2010
Thanks to Tucson resident and exercise proponent Steve Gall, school districts in Arizona will now hold public hearings on whether schools should have 30 minutes of organized, mandatory recess per day.
The Legislature last week passed the Education Omnibus Bill, which included Gall's "recess amendment" and will take effect on Jan. 1, 2011. The governor signed the bill into law Tuesday.
Alarmed by the childhood obesity epidemic, Gall, a 66-year-old retired physical education teacher and volunteer with the Tucson Unified School District, has been working for the past two years to get Arizona schoolchildren moving.
Ideally, he would have liked legislators to mandate physical education in all of Arizona's schools. But at the suggestion of his wife, Mariana Spier, he decided on pushing for 30 minutes per day of organized recess.
USA Today
April 14, 2010
Going to PE class and recess can be a win-win situation for students.
Physical activity improves kids' fitness and lowers their risk of obesity. And now a government review of research shows that kids who take breaks from their class work to be physically active during the school day are often better able to concentrate on their school work and may do better on standardized tests.
7Online.com
February 4, 2010
(WABC) -- Kids will tell you how great recess is. Now, principals are chiming in. In a first-of-its-kind study, recess is shown to help students focus while in the classroom.
Washington Post
November 21, 2009
A debate over the value of make-believe and other games in preschool classes is deepening as more states fund programs
Fredricksburg.com Fredricksburg, VA
September 26, 2009
Dawn Hadlock started meeting her third-grade son for lunch at Courtland Elementary two or three times a week this school year after learning that daily recess had been cut to 15 minutes.
"We have a picnic outside and kick a soccer ball," she said. "We do our own little parent recess."
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