Md. Code, Education § 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.