San Diego Union-Tribune: Chilean high school students resume strikes
SANTIAGO, Chile – Small groups of protesters clashed sporadically with police Monday as more than 600,000 Chilean high school students joined an expanding strike pushing for increased education funding.
The strike, the largest such action by Chilean students in decades, is the first domestic crisis of President Michelle Bachelet’s nearly three-month-old government.
The public high school pupils are demanding free bus fare, free college entrance exams, more teachers, and improved secondary school buildings. They rejected Bachelet’s offer last week of $135 million in additional annual funding for school programs, saying it failed to meet their key demands.
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