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“We sued them in 2008 for Clean Air Act violations, reached an agreement with them to curb emissions in 2012, and now here we are in 2021 reaching another agreement after they violated the first one,” said Ann Alexander, senior attorney at the Natural Resources Defense Council. “Let’s hope this settlement is the end of the matter.”

“We sued them in 2008 for Clean Air Act violations, reached an agreement with them to curb emissions in 2012, and now here we are in 2021 reaching another agreement after they violated the first one,” said Ann Alexander, senior attorney at the Natural Resources Defense Council. “Let’s hope this settlement is the end of the matter.”

The latest report includes data from the Illinois Assessment of Readiness, or IAR, which is the state’s federally mandated measurement of students’ mastery of the Illinois Learning Standards in English language arts and math in Grades three through eight, and “their readiness for what’s next,” according to ISBE.