§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.