More than one-third of California teens do not participate in school physical education

Tuesday, May 31, 2011 - 18:30 in Health & Medicine

Despite a state requirement of 400 minutes of physical education every 10 days, approximately 1.3 million California public middle and high school students -- more than one-third (38 percent) of all California adolescents enrolled in public schools -- do not participate in any school-based physical education classes, according to a new research.

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