For almost a decade students have been marching on the streets to call for education reform. However, despite their persistence, very little changed during Michelle Bachelet's first administration as well as Sebastian Pinera's government. Now that Bachelet has returned to power, she has pledged reform, but students will not let her forget her promises.

Since the beginning of her new administration, students have marched, calling for education reforms. According to the Santiago Times, students want free, public university education for all, calling it "a social right and not a consumer product." Various student organizations from private and public universities have been working together to maintain the topic alive. In some cases, professors and university staff who side with the students have also joined the marches

"We have organized this march against the government because we've seen that, at the end of the day, they seek to continue profit-making in education," Takuri Tapia, president of the Universidad de Santiago Student Federation (Feusach), told The Santiago Times.

However, Bachelet has made good in her promise and announced on Monday the first part of the education reform legislation. The Santiago Times reports that the bill proposes to end for-profit education, discrimination through the use of student selection processes and abolishment of the co-pay system, which enables schools to charge families for enrolled students, despite also receiving government funds.

Students do not think the bill goes far enough. They argue very little is being done to reform the whole institution. After reviewing the bill, student groups the Chilean Student Confederation (Confech) and the Coordinated Assembly of High School Students (Aces) pledged they would continue protesting.

Students argue the government did not consult them on the details of the bill. Though the Education Minister Nicolas Eyzaguirre collaborated with some student groups, students remain wary, the Santiago Times said. A historian of the student movement, Luis Thielemann, argued the lack of outreach has ostracized the students from the government.

"When the bill was drafted there was no participation from the community, from social organizations," Thielemann said. "Private schools will continue to exist, segregation will continue. ... It does not establish education as a right."

The issue of education as a right reached its zenith this past week when a 31-year-old artist turned student debt into a symbol of activism and a piece of art. According to The Guardian, Francisco Tapia, otherwise known as "Papas Fritas," obtained debt papers from the for-profit Universidad del Mar and burned them.

According to him, the debts cover $500 million worth of debts from students. In a YouTube video, Tapia admits burning the documents and claims the students are now free from their debts. Though not necessarily true, according to lawyer Mauricio Daza, who was interviewed by The Guardian, the university would have to make the students claim the debts in court, which would be very complicated.

However, Universidad del Mar has been under investigation since 2011. The Guardian reportws that the university has been more known as a money laundering organization, and the government shut it down -- though students still need to pay off their debts. But, maybe with the help of Papas Fritas, they will not have to anymore.