The student protests in Chile began in 2006, when secondary school students launched a movement dubbed the Penguin Revolution, which sought to repeal the Organic Constitutional Law of Teaching. The law, which was instituted under Pinochet, decentralized education and relaxed standards for government funding, resulting in a proliferation of low-quality, for-profit institutions. Former President Michelle Bachelet attempted to resolve the issue by replacing the law with the General Education Law in 2009, but occasional demonstrations have continued with varying degrees of intensity. Chile Locator Map In mid-2011, Chilean university students launched a new wave of protests in demand of additional reforms to the country's education system, which they saw as inequitable. Teachers unions, secondary school students, the Central Workers' Union and copper-mining contractors eventually joined the movement, resulting in some of the largest demonstrations in Chile since the end of Pinochet's rule.