American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance - AAHPERD

The AAHPERD Legislative Action Center provides you with the information and resources you need to address the health, physical activity, dance, and sport issues being debated on Capitol Hill. In addition, this site serves as an elections, media, and training resource.

Legislative Priorities

To further its mission of supporting healthy, creative, and active lifestyles for all Americans, AAHPERD and its associations are working to educate the U.S. Congress and Executive Branch on the following legislative priorities:

• Support the PHYSICAL Act—PE & HE as Core Subjects Senator Tom Udall has introduced legislation to make physical education and health education core academic subjects within ESEA. S. 3683 would also reauthorize PEP as a stand-alone program, create a new health education grant similar to PEP and make some changes in the Department of Education to emphasize PE and health education. Please contact your Senators and ask them to co-sponsor this important bill. [Take action] Use NASPE’s new “PE is an Academic Subject” paper in your advocacy!
  
• Support the Child Nutrition Reauthorization Bill
  The American Association for Health Education joined 127 other national organizations urging Congress to pass a strong child nutrition bill. This legislation would strengthen programs like school meals, WIC, and summer and afterschool feeding programs. With 1 in 4 children struggling with hunger and 1 in 3 obese or overweight, the Child Nutrition Reauthorization could not come at a more critical time. [ Take Action ] 
• Support Physical Education and Health Education in ESEA
  Congress has begun the process of reauthorizing the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) and your input is critical. Please let your legislators know how important it is to include physical education and health education in the new ESEA. [Take action]
• Health Education Advocacy Alert
  Support Health Education in our nation's schools and communities by advocating for more federal support. Now is the time to lend your voice to advocate for health education. [Take action]
• Support PEP Grant Funding
  In an effort to streamline the Department of Education (USDE)'s programs and increase effectiveness, the President's FY 2011 budget contains major changes to the PEP grant program. The Administration proposes to consolidate PEP into a new authority along with 5 other existing programs. [Take Action]
  
• Advocacy Issues Supported by the National Associations