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updated: Oct 12, 2009, 5:30 PM

Source: SB Schools

Monroe Elementary School PTA to accept $10,000 check from the Governor’s Council on Physical Fitness

At 10:30 a.m. Thursday, October 15, 2009, Governor’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports Chairman Jake Steinfeld will be at Monroe Elementary on Thursday to present the Monroe Elementary Parent Teacher Association with a $10,000 check. The check will be presented in honor of the Monroe Elementary PTA winning a 2009 Governor’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports Spotlight Award presented by the Anthem Blue Cross Foundation.

Six years ago only 6.6 percent of the fifth grade students at Monroe Elementary School could pass the California State Physical Fitness exam. Due in large part to the PTA’s support of physical activity and physical education over the last five years, 46.3 percent of Monroe’s fifth-grade students passed the same test last year.

In addition to presenting the check for $10,000, the Council and Anthem Blue Cross of California will be bringing the Live Like a Champion Tour to Monroe Elementary – the tour brings interactive games and challenging sports-themed activities to help children bring out their “inner champion.”

With a soaring obesity epidemic and nearly two thirds of California youth unfit, Governor Schwarzenegger joined some of California’s greatest sports legends in launching the Council in 2005. The goal of the Council is to get Californians of all ages more active, setting the stage for California to become the nation’s “Fitness State.”

Monroe Elementary School is located at 431 Flora Vista Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93109

October 22 is Lights On Afterschool

The school district’s A-OK programs (at Adams, Cleveland, Franklin, Harding, and McKinley campuses) and the city's RAP programs (at Adams, Cesar Chavez/Franklin, Monroe, OAS, Roosevelt, and Washington) will be joining hands with 7,500 other communities across the nation to celebrate Lights On Afterschool on Thursday, October 22. The children will celebrate by decorating the fences and other areas around the schools with paper light bulbs. Each site on will invite families to attend A-OK and RAP programs so that they too can experience a typical day of activities including crafts, sports activities, Laugh Riot, Wild Rumpus, homework assistance and much more.

The event is held to call attention to the afterschool programs that keep our children safe, inspire them to learn, as well as assist working families with their afterschool care needs.

Nationally, working families face many challenges when it comes to caring for children in the afternoon hours. More than one in five children of working families in California go home and are unsupervised after school. To learn more about Lights On Afterschool go to link

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