Education Strike and Student Protest This Tuesday, November 10

November 8, 2026 at 08:21 a.m.

The national education strike resumes this Tuesday, November 10, 2026, with demonstrations by students, high school students and staff in Paris and across France, in an effort to influence talks with the government.

The National Education strike and the student demonstration return this Tuesday, November 10, 2026. Teachers, high school students, university students and researchers have been called on to stop work and take to the streets in Paris and across the Île-de-France region. Schools, middle schools, high schools and universities in the capital, as well as those in the Créteil and Versailles education districts, could be affected.

The call was taken up this Saturday, November 7, by the Snes-FSU, the leading union for middle and high schools. It comes five days after the November 5 strike and the day after a busy day at Matignon.

Who is calling for a strike on November 10?

Fifteen organizations have signed the joint statement, according to Dijon Actualités, which details its contents. On the youth side, the signatories include the Union syndicale lycéenne (USL), Union étudiante, UNEF, FAGE, FSE and Solidaires étudiant-e-s. On the staff side, FSU, FERC-CGT, FO, SUD éducation and Sup'Recherche-UNSA are among the signatories.

The tone is combative. According to the inter-union coalition, quoted by L'Express, the movement is “in a position of strength” and the government is “starting to back down.” CGT Éduc'action is even urging staff to hold general assemblies from this Monday to discuss an ongoing, renewable strike.

Why another day on Tuesday?

The timing explains everything. This Monday, November 9, Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu is bringing together unions and employers at 9:30 a.m. for a social conference on wages and purchasing power. He will then meet representatives of high school and university students from 3:30 to 5 p.m., according to franceinfo.

Tuesday is therefore a full-scale test. If Monday’s announcements disappoint, people must make their voices heard in the streets the very next day. The unions are particularly concerned that the public sector will be left out of pay talks. They are meeting on Tuesday evening to take stock and decide what to do next, in coordination with the cross-industry union coalition.

The momentum from November 5 is a factor. That day, the Snes-FSU said 52% of staff at middle and high schools were on strike, with nearly 1,000 high schools blocked or closed, according to Entrevue. Authorities counted nearly 600,000 demonstrators across France, while the CGT put the figure at 1.6 million.

What are teachers, high school students and university students demanding?

It all started in mid-September at a high school in Créteil (94), where teachers and students denounced vacant positions and classes that were not being held. Since then, the demands have broadened. For schools, the signatories are calling for the public-sector pay index to be unfrozen and for more teachers, senior education advisers, support staff for students with disabilities, nurses and psychologists to be hired, as well as a building renovation plan.

For universities, they are calling for funding for 150,000 places they say are lacking, the creation of 15,000 permanent positions, and an end to the barriers they attribute to Parcoursup and Mon Master. The research sector is calling for the planned job cuts in the 2027 budget to be scrapped.

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The government has already taken action. At the end of October, it promised a two-phase reform of Parcoursup, a €5 billion plan for high schools and universities, and smaller classes, as we reported in our article on student protests. The organizations say this is not enough, and are particularly disappointed by the lack of concrete measures for universities.

What route will the student demonstration take in Paris?

This Sunday, no route has yet been made public for the November 10 demonstration in Paris, either by the organizers or by the Paris police headquarters. The most recent events nevertheless offer some idea of what may be taking shape.

On November 3, the prefecture had refused to allow students from Interfac Île-de-France to march from the Panthéon to Medef headquarters, authorizing only a procession between Porte de Charenton and Porte de Montreuil. Around 300 students had ultimately gathered outside Jussieu University (5th arrondissement), according to ICI Paris Île-de-France. On November 5 and 7, by contrast, union marches were allowed to travel from Place de la République to Place de la Nation along Boulevard Voltaire (11th arrondissement), as detailed in our article on the November 5 march route.

Schools and cafeterias: what to expect on Tuesday?

In nursery and elementary schools, teachers must give at least 48 hours’ notice of their intention to go on strike. If at least a quarter of them are on strike, the local authority must provide a minimum childcare service, managed in Paris by the arrondissement town halls. The simplest option is to ask the school on Monday whether it will be open.

At middle and high schools, classes may be canceled, and further blockades cannot be ruled out outside some schools. At universities, lecture halls could also remain empty. The organizations have also filed strike notices covering the coming weeks, leaving the door open to further days of action.

Metro, RER: Are disruptions expected?

No strike has been called at RATP or SNCF for Tuesday so far. However, metro stations along the route may still be closed at the police prefecture’s request, as they are during every major demonstration in the autumn. Our metro, RER and train traffic update is updated daily, as are the RATP and Île-de-France Mobilités websites. This week’s engineering work is listed in our metro and RER disruptions this week.