As lawmakers in Tallahassee push a proposed constitutional amendment that would freeze class size counts at the schoolwide level, school principals across the state are planning for the 2010-11 school year based on the 2003 constitutional amendment that says class size has to be calculated class by class in each school.

Yet if the proposed class size amendment is approved by voters in November, what should Florida schools do? And will they be penalized for failing to meet the class-by-class standards between August and November, even though the Florida Department of Education knows adoption of the amendment could render any "violations" moot?

The Senate K-12 committee is working on a proposal to address those questions and school-year planning uncertainties. More