French children should continue to barricade their schools and take part in street protests, a student union said on Monday after the government announced a package of education measures to try to stem the crisis.

“Today we’re at the negotiating table, we’re able to negotiate with the government,” Pierre Sourzat of Les Lycéens told France Info television. “We’re in a power struggle and we still need to call for continued mobilisation to meet a maximum of our demands.”

The government told high school student representatives it would cap some class sizes and review the university application system. But Sourzat said: “We want measures, not half measures.”

More than five weeks after the start of high school blockades in September, the government made the proposals to address the demands of what has become the biggest youth protest movement in years.…