Section 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.