A learn-to-ride bicycle curriculum has now reached nearly 2,000 U.S. elementary schools, turning a skill most children once picked up from a parent in a driveway into a scheduled part of kindergarten physical education. The Associated Press documented the program this month at Terra Vista Elementary in Rancho Cucamonga, California, where the city provided $45,000 to give the equipment and curriculum to that school and four others.
The program, All Kids Bike, is operated by the Strider Education Foundation. Schools that apply can be paired with donors who fund the cost, and the foundation says each program stays with a school for about a decade.
