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SILVER SPRING, MD – June 13, 2016 – Despite the fact there is clear evidence that physical education in schools is America’s best approach to raising active, smart, and healthy children, the state of Illinois is ignoring the evidence and allowing physical education to be cut out of schools throughout the state. 
A recent article in the Chicago Tribune reveals that Illinois -- once considered the model state for daily P.E. in school -- is pulling an about face and giving schools waivers on offering daily P.E. to its students. This is sending a bad lifestyle message to children in Illinois.
Why? Recent eye-opening research by the Physical Activity Council shows physical education is truly the ‘Inactivity Pandemic’ killer. People who don’t have P.E. are twice as likely to be ‘couch potatoes’ as those who have P.E. in school. And, PHIT America, the national charity that is putting P.E. back in our schools, reports the benefits of P.E. are far greater.