Washington, D.C. – Today Congressman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (TX-26) released the following statement regarding Kevin Jennings’s departure with the Department of Education.

"It is with great relief I note the departure of Kevin Jennings from the Department of Education. The so-called Safe School Czar was an embarrassment to the administration and an affront to parents everywhere. His inability to recognize appropriate boundaries restricting sexual relationship between adults and children rendered him unfit for any post in the Department of Education. The fact that the Obama administration stood by quietly while Mr. Jennings served in a public position with the Department of Education was completely deplorable. Mr. Jennings’s announcement that he is leaving the Department of Education means that our schoolchildren are safer. I only wish he had never received this appointment in the first place, and our schoolchildren should have never been put in jeopardy.”

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