Don Finley reported on the "Measure Up" effort in a Nov. 22 article on mysanantonio.com:
Project Measure Up doesn't exist just to help cash-strapped school districts with personnel costs. The real goal is to have ready access to all that raw data to get a detailed picture of the county's childhood obesity problem today and what health problems those kids will face years from now, organizers say.
We can predictively tell you within a 5 percent margin of error what our cardiovascular illness is going to be in 20 years based on these children right now. And that's really important for our future planning and legislation, said Nicole Rogers, executive director of the Health Collaborative, a group of local hospitals, health agencies and charitable foundations that sponsors Project Measure Up.
Eight local independent school districts Alamo Heights, East Central, Edgewood, Harlandale, Judson, Somerset, South San Antonio and South Side have accepted the group's offer of free, trained volunteers to help with the tests. The three largest districts North East, Northside and San Antonio have not, although discussions are under way with San Antonio, Rogers said.
It's been a process of earning trust in the schools, Rogers said.
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