The White Salmon Valley School District board has approved a plan for starting in-person instruction for kindergarten through eighth grade that would go into effect once the district drops to the moderate level of risk for COVID-19, involving the case rate dropping below 350 per 100,000 residents and test positivity rates falling under ten percent for two straight weeks.  Under the plan, kindergarten and first graders and fourth graders would return the first week, grades two, three, five, and six in the second week, and seventh and eighth graders the following week.  District Superintendent Jerry Lewis says they can be ready quickly once the metrics are reached.  For high schoolers to return, the case rate must drop to 200 cases per 100,000 residents.