By a slim margin, likely voters support a constitutional amendment that would create a commission to consider charter school applications, a poll conducted for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution shows.

The proposed amendment has the support of 45 percent of likely voters, with 42 percent opposed to it. Another 13 percent told pollsters they don’t know about the amendment or offered no answer. The poll, taken this week, has a margin of error of 5.3 percentage points.

Polls conducted for supporters of the amendment show it has more support than what the AJC found. A poll conducted for opponents’ show that a small majority of voters would vote against changing the constitution.

Atlanta Journal-Constitution