Urgent Health Education Advocacy Request - by March 26th

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The U. S.  House Education and Labor Committee is collecting comments regarding the Elementary and Secondary Education Act reauthorization.  These comments will be shared with all members of the committee.  

In an effort to have School Heath Education addressed and included in the reauthorization, your participation is vital.

Please take a few moments to send the following points to the email address below.

eseacomments@mail.house.gov

You are encouraged to identify yourself as a supporter of school health education.  

Finally, if there are others who support our efforts, please ask them to contact the committee as well.  Please note, the deadline for submitting comments to the U.S. House of Representatives Education and Labor Committee is March 26th.  

Thank you in advance for your assistance.

Please request that the new Elementary and Secondary Education Act should:

• Provide strong guidance to ensure that all students will experience a robust health education curriculum that will address critical health needs such as obesity and develop a health literate society;
• Require all health education teachers to meet state certification  standards;
• Provide professional development opportunities to enhance the quality of health education teaching as health and medical knowledge continues to advance;
• Carve out a funding program for support of local school agencies committed to positively enhancing their delivery of health education programming.