8 days ago · France
France pledges more teachers as protests continue
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What we know
France's education minister on Thursday promised 3,000 substitute teachers for the country's worst-off high schools, after tens of thousands took to the streets nationwide to demand better education. Students have blocked entrances to hundreds of high schools for more than a week, with squads of riot police deployed – occasionally…
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