Tens of thousands of teachers, students, and families took to the streets of Madrid on Sunday to protest what organisers described as chronic underfunding and institutional neglect of the region's public education system. Around 50,000 demonstrators marched from Atocha to Puerta del Sol carrying banners reading "without education there is no future," representing every level of schooling from nurseries to universities. The protest comes amid an indefinite strike by early-years teachers that began on 7 April, with demonstrators accusing the regional government of Isabel Díaz Ayuso (the conservative president of the Madrid Autonomous Community) of redirecting public funds toward private and semi-private schools while cutting resources, raising class sizes, and worsening pay and conditions across the public sector.