N.Y. Education Law § 3641-b: Grants for summer institutes for mathematics and science teachers

§ 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.