# Education (GED)

## Title 8. Special Programs for Exceptional Children

### Subtitle 1. Disadvantaged Children

#### Section 8-105

Each county board that applies for State funds under this subtitle shall include a comprehensive compensatory education plan in its application that:

(1) Emphasizes a preventive program aimed at disadvantaged or potentially disadvantaged children; and

(2) Has as an ultimate goal:

  (i) Teaching disadvantaged or potentially disadvantaged children to read;

  (ii) Awakening their interest in learning;

  (iii) Giving them a sense of success in school achievement;

  (iv) Preventing their alienation from the school; and

  (v) Preventing their early departure from school.

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Md. Code Ann., Educ. (as displayed at mgaleg.maryland.gov, October 16, 2026)