The 23-member committee met Tuesday for its fourth session as it faces a December deadline for suggestions to be considered during next year's legislative session.

Most of the legislation passed by the General Assembly last session goes into affect July 1. Here is a list of this year's new laws.

The panel met for the second time Tuesday. It has six more meetings before the December deadline to submit its redesign plan.

The panel is tasked with re-writing the state assessment, and will meet for the first time May 24.

Six Indiana educators, a former education policymaker and a teachers union representative are the first appointees to a panel that will decide the future of standardized testing in Indiana.

The Department of Education ask schools to give students the un-scored questions to help the vendor sharpen the test. Wawasee school officials say they didn't want to give the students those questions on top of the scored test.

Pence signed the bill Tuesday during an assembly at Eagle Elementary School in Zionsville. He jokingly told students the good news is that the ISTEP will go away but the bad news is they will still have to take tests.

The Fort Wayne Community School board voted last week to not help the Indiana Department of Education pilot questions for next year's ISTEP+, saying they didn't want to subject their students to additional, unnecessary testing.

The 2016 General Assembly Thursday voted to get rid of the current ISTEP.

The measure passed on a 38-10 vote Tuesday was dramatically different from a version of the bill approved by the House.