by Greg Mihailovich | May 29, 2019 | Advocacy, News
The New York City Council unanimously passed three important pieces of legislation to help NYC students be physically active. These three reporting bills aim to address issues of accountability in how physical education and after-school athletics, including how...
by Greg Mihailovich | Dec 4, 2018 | News, Surveys & Reports
The New York City Council released a report on data released by the NYC Department of Education for the 2017-2018 school year. According to the data, 24% or 214,077 of students in New York City Schools did not get the required amount of Physical Education in the...
by Greg Mihailovich | Mar 22, 2018 | News, Surveys & Reports
The New York City Council released a report, Planning to Learn: The School Building Challenge, which provides a detailed analysis of the space challenges faced by New York City’s public school system and recommendations on how to address the ongoing problem of...
by Alicia Johnson | Aug 31, 2017 | News
The Department of Education released new data on the quality and quantity of physical education during the 2016-2017 school year. The report can be downloaded as an Excel document or viewed through Open Data Portal. This is the second year of data released since the...
by Alicia Johnson | Jun 19, 2017 | Advocacy, News
Space is a key issue when it comes to providing effective physical education (PE). That’s why we recently celebrated new funding to build space at New York City schools that don’t have any for PE. But overcrowding remains a problem for many schools, and as the...
by Alicia Johnson | Jun 13, 2017 | Advocacy, News
The Phys Ed 4 All Coalition (PE4All) applauds Mayor Bill de Blasio, Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito and Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña for the city’s announced Universal Physical Education (PE) Initiative which will provide all schools with a designated space...
