Pandemonium erupted on Tuesday night during an already contentious school board meeting in Houston, which culminated with a mother being dragged out of the venue by police officers.

The Houston Independent School District’s board of trustees was expected to vote on a controversial plan to hand over temporary control of 10 underperforming schools to a charter company called Energized for STEM Academy.

The raucous meeting that drew about 100 attendees got under way at 6pm at Hattie Mae White Educational Center, but it ended without a vote after the trustees decided to adjourn.

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Teachable moment: Chaos erupted on Tuesday night during a heated school board meeting in Houston

Some 100 members of the community voiced their opposition to a plan under which 10 failing schools would be taken over by a charter school company

Jenny Espeseth, a mother-of-two form Houston, was dragged out of the meeting by two school district police officers

Many local parents, community activists and members of a teachers’ union have spoken out against the proposal and expressed concerns that veteran teachers might be fired and that certain programs, including those serving students with special needs, might be cut, reported ABC13.

During Tuesday's meetings, parents, teachers and activists were given a chance to speak and used that opportunity to voice their opposition to the proposed handover of the schools.

The proceedings were repeatedly disrupted by chants of ‘no more sellouts' and outbursts from the crowd directed at the trustees.

Eventually, Board of Trustees President Rhonda Skillern-Jones called a recess and ordered to clear the room.

Not going quietly: Espeseth was removed by force after refusing to leave the venue when the head of the board of trustees ordered the disruptive crowd to disperse

Espeseth is pictured being picked up by her hands by the two officers in the hallway

Espeseth, who has a first-grader and a fifth-grader, said she was let go without charges

The local mom opposes the plan to have the mostly black and Hispanic schools handed over to Energized by STEM Academy

Police officers who were called in to remove the people encountered some resistance and a skirmish broke out in the crowd, as seen in footage recorded at the meeting.

At least two women refused to willingly leave the venue and had to be ejected by force.

Video captured one of the women, identified as Jenny Espeseth, being dragged across the floor by a pair of uniformed police officers.

Espeseth, who has a first-grader and a fifth-grader in the school district, later told the Houston Chronicle that after she was pulled into a side room in the hallway, the offices told her they would file a report, but then let her go.

Houston ISD issued a statement saying at least one school district police officer sustained minor injuries during the scuffle with the angry crowd.

‘While the district appreciates and shares the passion the community has for the students and schools and welcomes public input, audience members are expected to be respectful and observe decorum so that their views may be heard and appreciated,’ it read.

One person was arrested on a misdemeanor criminal trespass charge, another was charged with interfering with duties of a public servant and a third was detained but not arrested.

The raucous meeting, which was marked by angry disruptions and outbursts, ended without a vote taking place

The board has until April 30 to vote on the charter school partnership, after which it will go to the Texas Education Agency for approval.

The partnership plan is a stop-gap measure intended to prevent the Texas Education Agency from taking over the chronically failing schools, which are located in low-income neighborhoods and where most of the students and black and Hispanic.

A law passed in 2017 allows the district to transfer control of the schools to an outside agency for up to five years to improve academic performance.

After multiple community meetings, the district settled on Energized for STEM Academy, which already operates four local schools.

Dr. James Douglas, who sits on the board of Energized for STEM, said the HISD would not have picked the charter school company unless it had a proven record of success.

But not everyone in the community is convinced. Some parents have questioned Energized by STEM’s ability to accommodate students with special needs, pointing to the fact that they have few special education students at the schools they operate.