This amendment provides $925,000 the first year and $325,000 the second year from the federal Child Care and Development block grant for a pilot program to improve early childhood classrooms in faith-based and private child care centers. Language directs the Department of Social Services to implement the pilot program in cooperation with the University of Virginia Center for Advanced Study of Teaching and Learning (UVA CASTL) to implement their curriculum, professional development and coaching modules to improve Kindergarten readiness. Language also requires the development and use of a program to assess the Kindergarten readiness of four-year-olds in the pilot program. Of the amounts provided in this amendment, $400,000 the first year shall be used for the development of the Kindergarten readiness assessment and $325,000 the second year shall be used for an evaluation of the pilot program.