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<section article="ged" article_name="Education" number="7-101.1" title_number="7" title_name="Public Schools" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="General Provisions">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>In this section the following terms have the meanings indicated.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>“Economically disadvantaged background” means a family whose income would make a child eligible for free or reduced price meals if the child were in kindergarten.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>“Eligible child” means a child:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Who is from an economically disadvantaged background;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Whose parent or guardian seeks to enroll the child in a public prekindergarten program; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>Who is 4 years old on September 1 of the school year in which the parent or legal guardian seeks to enroll the child in a public prekindergarten program.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>“Eligible for free or reduced price meals” means eligible for free or reduced price meals based on eligibility requirements established by the United States Department of Agriculture.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>By the 2007–2008 school year, all eligible children shall be admitted free of charge to publicly funded prekindergarten programs established by each of the county boards.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>In the comprehensive master plan that is submitted under § 5–401 of this article, a county board shall identify the strategies that will be used in that county to ensure that publicly funded prekindergarten programs are available to all eligible children in that county by the 2007–2008 school year.</text>
  </level>
</section>
