Some educators are saying classroom outbursts are making it hard for them to teach and for students to learn.

A bill making its way through the General Assembly is meant to give more flexibility in disciplinary matters.

Our Casey Parker Bell reports on the bill from Frankfurt.

The goal of this is to empower teachers to control what happens inside their classrooms.

House Bill 538 gives teachers the right to remove disruptive kids from their class and allows principals to remove them from a class permanently.

Students would be placed in alternative programs or classes.

Raul Castro County's superintendent says it would give schools options they don't have.

The way that the law is currently written, there's no soft landing for these students.

They go from being expelled to being placed right back in our classroom.

There's no option for a transition period.

There's no option for virtual instruction.

HB 538 has language that would require expulsion for students who pose a danger to other students or faculty.

Representative Tim Truet, the bill's sponsor and elementary school principal, says the goal is to bring safety to classrooms and help recruit more teachers.

Whatever your job is in education is a great profession and I don't want people to to to not go into their field that they choose because of fear.

But a Louisville teacher says the bill could increase racial disparities.

Discretionary choices to kick a student out of school for 12 months, even if they send to alternate school or not.

You know that that's a that's a choice.

You have the choice to turn into alternative school, of choice to just expel.

And if you expel them, these kids on the street and we're in trouble.

Representative Felicia Rayburn voted against the bill.

She says a section of the measure allowing schools to take disciplinary action for activity off school property is unconstitutional.

But to to go out and to police after school hours, that's not their job.

And schools have a big enough job as it is.

This is unconstitutional.

High school 538, passed the education Committee, 17 to 4 for Kentucky Edition.

I'm K.C.

Parker, Bill.