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First day of school arrives for several South Carolina districts

WFAE | By Woody Cain
Published August 3, 2026 at 8:47 AM EDT
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Students walk into Dilworth Elementary on the first day of the 2025 school year.

Students in several South Carolina school districts returned to class Monday.

Those districts include Clover, Fort Mill, Rock Hill and York District 1.

In North Carolina, Cabarrus County students return to class Aug. 12. Union County schools resume Aug. 24, and Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools return to the classroom Aug. 25.
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Woody Cain
Woody is a Charlotte native who came to WFAE from the world of NASCAR where he was host of NASCAR Today for MRN Radio as well as a pit reporter, turn announcer and host of the NASCAR Live pre race show for Cup Series races. Before that, he was a news anchor at WBT radio in Charlotte, a traffic reporter, editor of The Charlotte Observer’s University City Magazine, News/Sports Director at WEGO-AM in Concord and a Swiss Army knife in local cable television. His first job after graduating from Appalachian State University was news reporter at The Daily Independent in Kannapolis. Along the way he’s covered everything from murder trials and a national political convention to high school sports and minor league baseball.
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