By keeping her teaching job, Jill Biden will make first-lady history

Jill Biden.
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After the Bidens move into the White House in January, Dr. Jill Biden will continue to teach English at Northern Virginia Community College, becoming the first presidential spouse to keep their day job and commute to work, The New York Times reports.

"Dr. Biden is focused on building her team and developing her priorities focused on education, military families and veterans, and cancer," her spokesman, Michael LaRosa, told the Times.

She has worked at Northern Virginia Community College for a decade, and President-elect Joe Biden praised her work on Saturday night in his victory speech, saying that "for America's educators, this is a great day: You're going to have one of your own in the White House." Catherine Garcia

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Editor's note: This story has been updated to correct the name of Northern Virginia Community College.

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia is night editor for TheWeek.com. Her writing and reporting has appeared in Entertainment Weekly and EW.com, The New York Times, The Book of Jezebel, and other publications. A Southern California native, Catherine is a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.