Very soon after Michelle Bachelet, the new president of Chile, took office in 2006, secondary public school students went out onto the streets to protest. Initially, their complaints had to do with specific issues such as free bus tickets on weekends, but gradually the movement became a more serious call to improve education in the public school system including private subsidised schools. They had many complaints, but underlying them all was the notion that large numbers of young people in public schools lacked the opportunities open to the affluent groups who attend the private school system. The student movement gained support from the public, and from many organisations such as the Teachers Union, political groups and university students, as well as private school students who perhaps recognised their own privileged situation. The impact of this massive protest may have come as a surprise. The purpose of the chapter is to discuss changes that have taken place in education, their focus, their achievements and tensions involved in the process of trying to improve the education system, what are effectively to be considered an improvement and what is still lacking.