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School District of Chetek awarded $1 million grant
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The School District of Chetek will receive approximately $1 million over three years to improve student activity levels and nutrition for grades K-12. This grant was part of $26.5 million awarded to school districts around the country by the U.S. Department of Education.
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Chetek was one of five schools in Wisconsin to receive this grant award.
The grant will allow the school district to develop and improve physical education programming to stress healthy lifestyles, lifelong fitness activities, before-and after-school activities and also provide nutritional support and guidance to families.
The grant will provide additional funds to positively impact students for lifelong fitness.
The programs developed with this grant will add a student fitness room with elliptical, treadmills, weights and computers to monitor individual fitness programs. The grant will also purchase lifelong fitness equipment, such as snowshoes, bikes, rollerblades and a 30-foot climbing wall.
Statistics show this generation of students will be the first ever with a lower life expectancy than their parents. The health of today's student is the No. 1 concern of the Chetek Physical Education Department.
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©The Chetek Alert 2009
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