It organises students in compulsory secondary education, baccalaureate, professional and university education; both public and private.
It has about 20,000 members and has 3 of the 8 student representatives in the State School Board.
[2] It was founded in 1986 by members of the organization currently called Izquierda Revolucionaria.
[4] Ana Garcia has blamed privatisation for the spread of corruption in the university sector.
[5] The union called a student strike on 10 May 2018 in protest against what it saw as the sexism of the judiciary in the La Manada sexual abuse case[6]