Students participate in a protest against an education law under review in the parliament in Santiago, capital of Chile, June 4, 2008. (Xinhua Photo) Photo Gallery>>>

    SANTIAGO, June 4 (Xinhua) -- At least 50 people were detained here Wednesday as a protest launched by students and teachers against an education law under review in parliament turned violent.

    The protest was organized to support a Wednesday strike by the country's largest teachers' union, the College of Professors, demanding the rejection to the proposed law.

    The demonstration in downtown Santiago led to clashes between protesters and riot police.

    Meanwhile, hundreds of students were detained in continued protests throughout the country against the education law, which they said did not bring substantial reform to the education system inherited from the country's military regime.

    The protesters seized a dozen schools and at least four universities, urging an immediate rejection to the education bill, which is a result of a consensus between the rightist opposition and the ruling leftists.

    The government is abusing the education system to profit from the misallocation of educational resources, the protesters said.