Hall County’s school superintendent unfairly claimed in an Oct. 21 guest column in The Times that my organization’s research lamented the billions in education state budget cuts in recent years without suggesting ways Georgia might reverse the damage the financial squeeze is causing. The fact is the Georgia Budget and Policy Institute consistently suggests ways for Georgia to pay for the quality education parents want. In fact, our recent report that apparently spurred Superintendent Will Schofield to write you includes this as part of the recommendations section: Lawmakers can raise revenues in many ways, including increasing the sales tax or expanding it to cover more services, limiting itemized deductions, raising the cigarette tax and more.