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Fourth year teacher Chloe Swanson, far right, appears at Jay Cooke State Park with students last fall for a photo shoot. Swanson teaches media production and photojournalism at the school. Her classes received nearly $5,000 of new equipment following an online fundraising drive in August.
Wrenshall School opened Tuesday with 344 students - much to the delight of district officials, who projected enrollment at 315 earlier in the year.
It was the latest piece of good news for a district that just two years ago was in financial turmoil.
Momentum for the district appears to be building in other ways, too.
In August, the district's teachers saw more than $6,300 in requests fulfilled during an online fundraising campaign.
"I have goosebumps just thinking about how emotional I felt seeing everyone's generosity," said Chloe Swanson, a fourth-year teacher in the district.
Swanson teache...
