Democrats for Education Reform (DFER) is a New York-based left-of-center political action committee and advocacy group which focuses on encouraging the Democratic Party to support public education reform and charter schools.
[2] Hedge fund manager and philanthropist Whitney Tilson and lawyer and former politician Kevin P. Chavous are among the group's co-founders.
[4] Shavar Jeffries, one of the charter school sector's most prominent Black leaders, became the president of the organization in 2015.
[8] In Washington D.C., DFER sent out attack ads against Janeese Lewis George, a progressive candidate for D.C. city council.
After conducting polling that showed voters were concerned about crime, DFER ran mailers that claimed that George would defund the police.