French school protests grow nationwide; students blockade thousands of schools

More than a quarter of a million people rallied nationwide to support school students demanding more education funding, according to government figures, with thousands of arrests. Students blockaded as many as 2,000 schools and hundreds of universities over the crumbling education system. Police fired tear gas and water cannons in Paris and Marseille. Crowds, described as mainly teenagers, called for more resources and an end to what they called police repression.