The pushback comes as top panel members have said Indiana will likely delay any changes until after spring 2018,

The plan is just one design the ISTEP committee could consider sugesting to the 2017 General Assembly next legislative session.

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.

The General Assembly created the panel to get recommendations for the ISTEP+ overhaul before the 2017 session. That comprehensive list must be completed by December 2016.

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

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

The bill, among other things, would create a panel of educators, legislators and community members to study and create a plan for moving to a new assessment type.

Here's how badly Indiana's schools did on the new ISTEP: Just four of 1,500 public schools that took the 2015 exam had more kids pass than the year before.

Indiana did as good or better than the U.S. average on the National Assessment of Educational Progress, or the "nation's report card," this year compared to 2013, while many states saw significant drops.

It's been two weeks since the Indiana State Board of Education put off a vote because of questions over potential differences in difficulty between the test's online and paper versions.