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.
Free degree program hopes to change early childhood education from a job to a career
![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](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/2a682f0/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1340x758+0+0/resize/880x498!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F58%2Ff1%2Faab1f44347c3ae57dc83c0462d57%2Ffreedegree-grove.png)
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