South Carolina goes back to school

Happy first day of school, South Carolina! Thousands of students in our area will wake up Monday morning and head back to the classroom for the new school year. Indira Eskieva joins Wake Up Charlotte To Go from Rock Hill, where pay raises and better incentives led to the hiring of nearly 200 new teachers. We hear from some of those teachers, who discuss why Rock Hill offers a lot to educators who were considering a major change in life. Tradesha Woodard is in Lancaster, where district leaders are preparing for heavy traffic on the first day of school. To help prevent major backups, schools in Lancaster have made some changes to schedules and are asking for parents to be patient in student pick-up and drop-off lines Monday. Ben Thompson connects the dots on North Carolina's COVID-19 State of Emergency, which ends Monday. You may not notice an immediate change, but the state of emergency did so much more than simply enforce COVID-19 safety measures and protocols. Watch Wake Up Charlotte each weekday morning from 4:30 to 7 a.m., and as always, join the conversation on social media using #WakeUpCLT!