ParisUnions count 450,000 marchers, the interior ministry 256,000.
Students blockading hundreds of high schools since late September drew unions and teachers into the streets.
Students in France cite missing teachers, overloaded timetables, dilapidated classrooms and buildings unfit for rising temperatures.
Government figures show 215 students and 715 police injured, and a police grenade took a 15-year-old’s hand in Lens.
Macron was due to meet the interior and education ministers late Tuesday, a government source said.
How each outlet framed it
drawn from 150+ reports worldwide
- TRT World leans critical
- foregrounds police brutality: teenager lost hand to stun grenade, another lost teeth to launcher round; links to 2027 election with Le Pen
- Al Jazeera Online
- contrasts Interior Ministry count (86k) vs CGT union (260k) marchers; reports 215 student/715 police injuries and 10 internal investigations
- RT leans critical
- graphically describes 15-year-old's hand severed by police grenade ('not even his wrist, there was nothing there')
Sources: TRT World, Al Jazeera Online, RT