Pink Hula Hoop owns a Newark public school. Bob Braun asks future of education?

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5. More on the Pink Hula Hoop..."Worse than a crime"

Pink Hula Hoop. Worse than a crime. Racism.

“The whole thing was engineered by (state Education Commissioner Christopher) Cerf to help his friend,” Rice said, referring to Timothy Carden, Cerf’s former business partner and head of most of the corporations that culminated in “Pink Hula Hoop,” a for-profit corporation that took title to the 18th Avenue School.

But I have little hope that a county prosecutor who serves at the pleasure of Gov. Chris Christie or a federal prosecutor who has disappointingly shown little concern for the way his predecessor—also Chris Christie– behaved in office will be aggressive. The best hope is that Rice will persuade the legislative leadership to let him conduct public hearings so that the people of Newark and New Jersey can see how shabbily people like Cerf and Anderson behave.

.....Does it bother most people in New Jersey that the parents in Newark have nothing to say about the schools their children attend? Does it trouble the state’s residents that the voters in Newark can apply no leverage whatsoever to one state-appointed dictator who can sell public property on the cheap to people just like her—white, affluent, residents of nearby suburbs?

No, I don’t think it does. Christie has done such an effective job inciting resentment against city residents, public education, public school employees, unions, and urban school systems that I am sure most people outside would either be indifferent toward or supportive of the disenfranchisement of the people of Newark.

And I don't think it bothers most people that public education can be bought up by such companies.