The recent holiday break brought USD 257 a chance to regroup in light of the coronavirus pandemic.
Last week marked the beginning of a new semester.
Students who had been struggling with online classes were asked to come back into the buildings for in-person classes.
At the elementary level, that meant the district was able to reduce the number of its online teachers from three to two. At Jefferson, enough students returned to class so that the online teacher who taught first- and second-graders was able to move to a regular, in-person classroom.