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Jill Biden to teachers in Boca: Education secretary will be an educator under Joe

Jill Biden, an English teacher at a community college in northern Virginia, started a three-city campaign tour in Florida on Saturday with a group of more than 100 — mostly retired — schoolteachers in Boca Raton, assuring them that her husband, Joe, would restore “dignity and respect” to the profession if elected president. “Nothing is more important in our democracy than giving our children the quality schools they deserve and we’re falling short,” Biden said. “It starts with how we invest or don’t invest in our classrooms. Biden, 68, said she has been a teacher for over 34 years. For the last 10 years — including the years she served as second lady during her husband’s tenure as vice president under President Barack Obama — she has taught English at a community college in northern Virginia. Biden said she has not taken a leave of absence from teaching since she had a baby more than 30 years ago but is taking off a semester now to campaign for her husband, “because the stakes