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Democrats for Education Reform (DFER) is a New York-based political action committee whose mission is to encourage the Democratic Party to embrace policies which will fundamentally reform American public education and promotes use of more charter schools, school funding and stricter teacher evaluations.[1] The group wants the Democratic Party to embrace education reform,[2] such as standardized testing and the Common Core educational standards.[3]

The group emerged around the same time as the Education Equality Project.[2] Whitney Tilson and Kevin P. Chavous among the group's co-founders. Gloria Romero leads the group's California chapter. Ron Tupa is a staff member for the group. Cory Booker is on the group's board of advisors. The group is led by former journalist Joe Williams,[4] who covered Oakland, California's school system.[5] Shavar Jeffries, one of the charter school sector's most prominent black leaders, became the president of the organization in 2015.[6][7][8]

Chalkbeat, a nonprofit news organization that covers education, has called the group "a national pro-charter advocacy group."[9]

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References

  1. ↑ Maranto, Robert; McShane, Michael Q. (2012). President Obama and Education Reform The Personal and the Political. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 1-137-03094-1.
  2. 1 2 Moe, Terry M. (2011). Special Interest Teachers Unions and America's Public Schools. Brookings Institution Press. ISBN 0-8157-2130-7.
  3. ↑ Anderson, Jeffrey (March 2, 2017). "An Education PAC Is Phone-Banking D.C. Residents to Promote Controversial Policy". Washington City Paper. Retrieved March 2, 2017.
  4. ↑ Kopp, Wendy; Farr, Steven (2011). A Chance to Make History What Works and What Doesn't in Providing an Excellent Education for All. PublicAffairs. ISBN 1-58648-926-7.
  5. ↑ Ravitch, Diane (2011). The Death and Life of the Great American School System How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education. Basic Books. ISBN 0-465-02821-7.
  6. ↑ Resmovits, Joy. "Democrats for Education Reform's Shavar Jeffries on how to fix his own movement". LATimes.com. Retrieved November 15, 2017.
  7. ↑ "Ex-Newark mayoral candidate Jeffries to head education lobbying group". NJ.com. Retrieved November 15, 2017.
  8. ↑ "At odds over Trump, Democrats for Education Reform chief resigned from Success board". Politico PRO. Retrieved 2018-04-23.
  9. ↑ "Assembly pushes for $1.5 billion boost to education spending". Chalkbeat. 2018-03-13. Retrieved 2018-03-22.
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