Not only does our local school district have physical fitness programs, the County sponsors all kinds of sports all year long for every age group. And they offer a 6 week parks and playgruonds program foro elemtary school kids in the summer...which my 7 year old has absolutely loved this summer.
But in the end it is not the school district or the County that should be responsible for this - it is parents, which is even more anethema to the liberals.
That is one area where the left has been successful. Convince Americans (at least if you believe polls) that all good things must come from the federal government, education among them. So now too many people expect their local schools to get funding from DC, and GWB! It is absurd, but it's what many citizens think is the natural course of things.