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Fire Up Your Feet Partners with Let's Move! Active Schools and First Lady Michelle Obama Brings Physical Activity Back to Schools

Fire Up Your Feet, with partners Kaiser Permanente, Safe Routes to School National Partnership and the National PTA®, team up to bring physical activity programs to schools around the country, including to 6,000 K-8 schools in California.  Fire Up Your Feet is a recognized program of the Let’s Move! Active Schools initiative, which was announced by First Lady Michelle Obama last month in Chicago. The program offers a healthy, easy fundraising choice with the goal to help children reach the recommended 60 minutes of physical activity a day. California’s Fire Up Your Feet program includes an Activity Challenge with $14,000 in challenge awards available to help schools increase physical activity opportunities before, during and after school. For more information and to register visit www.CAFireUpYourFeet.org

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