Today, only one in five students get enough exercise. While most elementary schools offer PE, access drops in high school, ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday reviving the Presidential Fitness Test, the once-ubiquitous school program that for more than five decades had American children running miles ...

President Donald Trump is resurrecting what he’s calling the “wonderful tradition” of the Presidential Fitness Test, through which a new generation of students will—if the new test resembles the ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — A familiar fixture in American physical education is making a comeback. President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday to reinstate the Presidential Fitness Test, a national ...

BISMARCK, N.D. (KFYR) - The North Dakota legislature could discuss requiring the presidential fitness test next year. A ...

Tom Davidson Friday, Aug. 1, 2025 5:57 p.m. | Friday, Aug. 1, 2025 5:57 p.m. President Donald Trump is the latest occupant of the Oval Office to be dismayed by the physical fitness of American youth.

Adults of a certain age likely remember having to participate in something called the Presidential Fitness Test. The test was typically administered in school gyms across the country, and it involved ...

President Trump is reviving an old fitness test. How much do you remember about the Presidential Fitness Test?

President Donald Trump’s plans to bring back the Presidential Fitness Test stirred immediate reactions from adults, who still carry vivid childhood memories of running a mile or doing pull-ups as ...

Health experts and school leaders are thrilled with President Trump’s revival of the Presidential Fitness Test, but they are hoping for substantial revisions to program, which was first deployed ...

It was once a rite of passage for millions of American schoolchildren before being phased out under the Obama administration. But now public school students across the U.S. once again face being rated ...