As the president of West Liberty University in West Virginia for close to a decade, Robin Capehart directed the administration of one of the state’s oldest institutions of higher education. Today, he serves as a senior resident scholar at the Public Policy Foundation of West Virginia. An accomplished scholar and attorney in the field of taxation and tax reform, Robin Capehart has also served as a consultant to state government on that subject.
In addition to his work as the head of West Liberty University, Mr. Capehart maintains a strong interest in education policy in general. He has authored several papers on that topic, published in recent years in Public Policy Quarterly. In particular, he favors broadening of school choice, which was among the pioneering standards put forth by President George H. W. Bush’s administration at the 1989 Education Summit.
Proponents of school choice emphasize the importance of respecting the rights of individual families to determine the best type of school for their own children. Charter schools, magnet schools, voucher funding, and homeschooling are among the possible means of increasing school choice available to communities.
Charter schools are not currently approved in West Virginia, yet proponents believe that their cause is gaining ground. Two members of the statewide school board recently resigned, offering the governor the opportunity to reorganize educational infrastructure. In addition, elected officials and the public alike have expressed a lack of confidence in current educational bureaucracy.
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