More than 1 million respond to first statewide education survey

"In all, 75 percent of K-12 teachers and 70 percent of sixth- through 12th-graders took the online surveys this year, adding up to nearly 957,000 respondents.

Nearly 200,000 parents also completed surveys.

'I think for an implementation of this scale, this is a remarkable response,' said Timothy Knowles, head of the University of Chicago's Urban Education Institute. The Illinois State Board of Education is partnering with a nonprofit arm of the institute to do the surveys."—Chicago Tribune