Georgia

You are right about the schools from K-12 to the research 1 universities. UGA is one of the cheapest places in the country (for a research 1) in terms of what it pays its profs and the resources that it provides them. It gets worse as one goes down the University hierarchy. Tech seems to be ok funding-wise. I don't know how they do it. Maybe it's the tuition.

I won't even get started on the public schools. Even the good suburban ones require parents to put in tons of money to keep their programs going. The poorer ones, where parents are too busy/poor/ect to do much, are disasters.