French students sang a rap referencing Mohamed Merah and Salah Abdeslam during protests, prompting investigations and calls for restraint.

More than 250,000 people took to streets across France on Tuesday as teachers, parents, and union activists joined students who have spent the past two weeks protesting, what they say is, a poorly-funded high school system.

Students held signs, chanted, and urged fellow students to speak out against sexual violence.

Students will call on Duke "to confront rape culture, strengthen its prevention of gender-based violence, and meaningfully support survivors."

THIS is the dramatic moment cops charge student protesters as dozens of cops are injured in escalating clashes. Shocking videos show students and feared riot police doing battle on the streets of

Participating students have vowed not to spend money on campus to protest sexual violence and how the university has handled complaints.

After a heavy-handed response to the student protests sweeping France, the government has changed tack.

Protesting students have demanded education reforms in French-speaking areas of the country.