Bright Horizons offers free degree program to expand the childcare workforce numbers

Lauren Floyd is the director of the Sam's Club Kids Club in Bentonville and one of the earliest members of the Horizons Teacher Degree Program

Free degree program hopes to change early childhood education from a job to a career

Matthew Moore

Bright Horizons is offering full-time employees an opportunity to get a bachelor's degree for free. Lauren Floyd shares her life experiences that led her from a high school dropout to the director of the Sam's Club Kid's Club daycare facility in Bentonville.

Podcast Excerpts from KUAF

Digital extra: Carol Silva Moralez, Gabriela Velasco and Samantha Arroyos on inspiring the future

Wendy Echeverria

The podcast Inspirando el futuro: Stories about Latina leaders in Northwest Arkansas continues with a new edition featuring host Wendy Echeverria and guests Carol Silva Moralez, Gabriela Velasco and Samantha Arroyos.

Local News from Ozarks at Large

New prison beds, new oncology center

Kyle Kellams

The Outline today includes a response to a backlog of prison inmates in Arkansas and a ribbon cutting for the new radiation oncology center at UAMS in Little Rock.

Local Music

Jumpsuit Jamey presents a night of honky tonk, dancing

Timothy Dennis

For quite a while now, Jamey Hall, better known as Jumpsuit Jamey, and his band, the Can’t Wait to Playboys, have been hosting country dances at the American Legion in Fayetteville. This month, they’re changing it up a bit. On July 29, the American Legion will host a honky-tonk ball presented by Jumpsuit Jamey and featuring music from Statehouse Electric and the NightTimers. Dance lessons will also be provided before the show. Earlier this month, Jumpsuit Jamey, Tim Patterson from Statehouse Electric, and the NightTimers, which is Shilah Molina and Doc Hopper, came to the Firmin-Garner Performance studio at KUAF to talk about the event .

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