Barbara Dreyer

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Barbara Dreyer was the co-founder, President, and CEO of the online K-12 education company, Connections Academy until she passed away in 2014.

Ties to the American Legislative Exchange Council

Connections Academy is a member of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and sits on its Education Task Force.

About ALEC

ALEC is a corporate bill mill. It is not just a lobby or a front group; it is much more powerful than that. Through ALEC, corporations hand state legislators their wishlists to benefit their bottom line. Corporations fund almost all of ALEC's operations. They pay for a seat on ALEC task forces where corporate lobbyists and special interest reps vote with elected officials to approve “model” bills. Learn more at the Center for Media and Democracy's ALECexposed.org, and check out breaking news on our PRWatch.org site.

Background

Previously, Dreyer served as COO and co-founder of Ntercept Communications, an online market research company that also operated a site for political issues and was one of the top 500 web sites during 2000. According to her official biography, "Dreyer has held senior management positions in start-ups that were sold to Motorola, MailWell, Union Carbide and Agency.com. She was a Partner with New Enterprise Associates, one of the nation's premier venture capital firms."

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