A committee of the Florida Taxation and Budget Reform Commission today narrowly approved a measure that would ask voters to amend the class-size amendment, the Tallahassee Democrat reports.

The proposal would stop the class-size limits at a school average - where they are currently - rather than moving them to classroom counts, as the amendment ultimately requires by 2010-11. A recent St. Petersburg Times poll indicates that Florida voters might not look too kindly on that change, which groups including the Florida Education Association have opposed.

The concept next moves to the full TBRC, where it must receive at least 17 votes of the 25-member board to go before voters. The group, which meets once every 20 years, can put measures on the ballot without legislative approval or voter petitions. It must make its ballot recommendations by May.