§ 3641-b. Grants for summer institutes for mathematics and science
teachers. The commissioner shall establish a program of competitively
awarded grants within the amount appropriated for such purpose, to
public and independent colleges and universities offering teacher
education programs, in partnership with school districts, to conduct
summer institutes for teachers of science and mathematics in grades five
through eight in middle schools, junior high schools, intermediate
schools or junior/senior high schools with priority given as practicable
to teachers in schools identified as schools in need of improvement or
in corrective action or restructuring status, schools under registration
review or schools requiring academic progress. Such summer institutes
shall be designed to advance the content knowledge and pedagogy of
participating science and mathematics teachers and shall, to the extent
practicable, be aligned and integrated with programs offered to
excelsior scholars pursuant to section thirty-six hundred forty-one-a of
this article. Teachers shall be selected for participation by their
building principal.