CHICAGO (Reuters) - Hundreds of thousands of Chicago students returned to school on Wednesday after a teachers' strike ended, thrilling parents who had struggled with child care but shifting the debate to hard questions about budget deficits, school closures and teacher layoffs. At the doorstep of John H. Vanderpoel Elementary Magnet School on the city's south side, children lined up on a sunny and chilly morning to wait for doors to open for the first time in nine days. "Mommy, I've got to go to school," yelled Kimberly Watson's kindergartner as she pulled her mother toward the door. "She was excited to get back," said Watson after dropping her daughter off. "At first I was concerned that...
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