Pink Hula Hoop. Worse than a crime. Racism.
State Sen. Ronald Rice (D-Essex) said he believes the story of “Pink Hula Hoop” is astory about crime. That’s the quaint name given to the convoluted way in which rich and politically-connected people and wealthy organizations raised mostly public money to buy—at a discount– public property for private purposes. “The crime is in the entire set up,” Rice said. “It’s a Ponzi scheme.”
Rice made the remarks at a press conference Friday at Newark Teachers Union headquarters. He was flanked by the city’s interim mayor, Luis Quintana, and an Assemblyman, Ralph Caputo, a former Essex County schools superintendent. In the audience were the leaders of statewide teachers unions and the president of the Newark school board.
I don’t know whether Rice can prove superintendent Cami Anderson’s sale of Newark’s 18th Avenue School to the leaders of the TEAM Academy Charter Schools involved criminal activity. I think it was worse than a crime. I think it was
