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Military training aside, here is all that Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’s report has to say about federal role in cradle-to-grave INTRAstate education.

President Thomas Jefferson had officially indicated that the states would first need to appropriately amend the Constitution in order for Congress to have the power to dictate policy, tax and spend in the name of intrastate schooling, something that the states have never done.

On a few articles of more general and necessary use, the suppression in due season will doubtless be right, but the great mass of the articles on which impost is paid is foreign luxuries, purchased by those only who are rich enough to afford themselves the use of them. Their patriotism would certainly prefer its continuance and application to the great purposes of the public education, roads, rivers, canals, and such other objects of public improvement as it may be thought proper to add to the constitutional enumeration of federal powers [emphases added].”—Thomas Jefferson : Sixth Annual Message to Congress
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.

Additionally, Pres. Jefferson and constitutional lawmaker Rep. John Bingham had clarified that the Founding States had left the care of the people uniquely to the states, not the federal government.

"Our citizens have wisely formed themselves into one nation as to others and several States as among themselves. To the united nation belong our external and mutual relations; to each State, severally, the care of our persons [emphasis added], our property, our reputation and religious freedom.” —Thomas Jefferson: To Rhode Island Assembly, 1801.
”... the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Federal Constitution, is in the States, and not in the Federal Government [emphases added].” —Rep. John Bingham, Congressional Globe, 1866. (See about middle of 3rd column.)

The reason that the unconstitutionally big federal government now has its big, unwanted nose in intrastate education is this imo. The 16th and ill-conceived 17th Amendments gave corrupt lawmakers a way to exploit low-information voters.

More specifically, career federal lawmakers get themselves elected and reelected by promising such voters financial assistance for school, such voters evidently not understanding that the states have never given the feds the express constitutional authority to tax, spend and dictate policy for intrastate schooling purposes, evidenced by the Jefferson excerpt above.

To not only get the constitutionally limited power federal government out of the affairs of the sovereign states, but also to make the president’s vision for MAGA last for many generations, it is recommended that Pres. Trump lead the states to repeal the 16th and 17th Amendments.