This amendment provides $300,000 from the general fund the first year for a fellowship program administered by the Literacy Lab to place recent high-school graduates of a minority background in VPI or Head Start classrooms. Literacy Lab will partner with school divisions or community-based early childhood centers in Richmond and Portsmouth. Literacy Lab will report by August 1, 2021 to the Chairs of the House Education and Senate Education and Health Committees, Secretary of Education, and the Superintendent of Public Instruction on its activities to provide training, coaching, and professional development to the fellowship participants, and provide metrics on the success of participants entering the educator pipeline either through employment or a teacher preparation program.