Since the beginning of the year, freshman Long Beach Island Consolidated Board of Education member Eileen Bowker has been tasked with developing a strategic plan for the elementary school district. Coordinating schedules with the New Jersey School Board Association representative charged with helping develop and implement a plan to effectively target the district’s efforts and resources to move it forward hasn’t materialized.

What if it had? Would the district and the public remain divided over rehabbing the LBI Grade School to the tune of…