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<section article="ged" article_name="Education" number="8-105" title_number="8" title_name="Special Programs for Exceptional Children" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="Disadvantaged Children">
  <text>Each county board that applies for State funds under this subtitle shall include a comprehensive compensatory education plan in its application that:</text>
  <level label="1">
    <text>Emphasizes a preventive program aimed at disadvantaged or potentially disadvantaged children; and</text>
  </level>
  <level label="2">
    <text>Has as an ultimate goal:</text>
    <level label="i">
      <text>Teaching disadvantaged or potentially disadvantaged children to read;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="ii">
      <text>Awakening their interest in learning;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="iii">
      <text>Giving them a sense of success in school achievement;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="iv">
      <text>Preventing their alienation from the school; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="v">
      <text>Preventing their early departure from school.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
