The scale of the demonstrations planned for Tuesday will test the strength of the student-led protest movement that has spread across French high schools since late September.

France is facing yet another day of chaos and violence across the country, as police and student rioters already began clashing.

PARIS ― Students, teachers and parents marched in cites across France on Tuesday and protesters blockaded hundreds of schools, in the biggest day of action in a wave of demonstrations demanding the government tackle understaffed and dilapidated classrooms.

Lessons were suspended at hundreds of French high schools on Monday, as part of a wave of student protest over learning conditions that have rocked the European nation.

It comes as Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez called a snap election yesterday after his government suffered a bruising legislative defeat last week.