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One of the hallmarks of the test was the Presidential Fitness Award for top-performing students, a tradition that will return ...
The president signed an executive order that expands on kids’ participation in sports and physical activity, while promoting ...
President Donald Trump is reinstating the Presidential Fitness Test. Here's when it last was used and why it's making a ...
The Obama administration phased the test out in 2012, replacing it with a program focused on overall health rather than ...
The Presidential Fitness Test, created in 1966 by President Lyndon B. Johnson, requires children to run and perform situps, ...
The program was created in 1966 and had children run and perform situps, pullups or pushups and a sit-and-reach test.
The president reinstated the test, which was phased out during the Obama administration, to celebrate the "the exceptionalism of America's sports and fitness traditions." ...
Trump signed an executive order on Thursday that will expand the President's Council on Sports, Fitness & Nutrition and bring back the Presidential Fitness Test in public schools.
Trump’s order not only reinstates the Presidential Fitness Test and Award in schools it encourages youth to establish fitness ...
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to bring back the Presidential Fitness Test in schools, joined by ...
President Donald Trump will be joined by professional athletes on Thursday to sign an executive order that will expand on his ...