With improving COVID-19 metrics, North Wasco County School District 21 is moving ahead with plans to get students back into classrooms.  D-21 interim superintendent Theresa Peters told district board members about plans to begin hybrid learning with kindergarteners and sixth graders on March 15, adding first, second, seventh, eighth, and ninth graders on March 18, and the remaining grades after spring break on March 29.  Peters says the district was sending e-mail information for parents on the transition, including an option to choose the North Wasco Virtual Academy.  Elementary and middle school students will have in-person learning half-days four days a week in two separate cohorts, and The Dalles High School students will attend in the mornings,  alternating days by cohort, with all students in comprehensive distance learning on Wednesdays.