North Wasco County School District 21 is continuing to move forward with planning for returning students back to the classroom in a hybrid format.  In a letter to district parents, interim superintendent Theresa Peters says with the number of COVID-19 cases in Wasco County trending downward, the district has a tentative plan for beginning in-person learning in early March, starting with kindergarten.  First and second grades would be added a week later, with additional grades to follow.  Peters plans to issue another update next week.  Limited in-person instruction at The Dalles Middle School for identified students in need of assistance will begin next Tuesday.  The letter gave the results of a parent survey showing 80% of respondents want to go to hybrid in-person learning at the elementary level, 71% at the middle school level, and 75% in the high school grades.