Establishing an annual grant program to recognize schools providing +excellent language arts and mathematics teaching in certain grades; creating an excellence in language arts and mathematics teaching grant fund to +permit the commissioner of education to award grants to a certain number of +public schools enrolling students demonstrating the highest measures of educational +progress; prescribing the application process, specifying certain requirements +of the commissioner in reviewing the applications; specifying a grant limit +and certain requirements for use of the grants by teaching staff and the +schools; requiring commissioner dissemination of effective instructional +strategies (ra)