What is the difference between state and federal FAFSA?

There are federal education policies, federal education loans, and federal education standards.

However, unlike state schools (public colleges and universities) the only use of

'a federal education' I've ever heard referred either to:

# being in the military

* akin to the school of hard knocks, life university, and other witticisms;

* On the job training in the military;

* Officer training schools such as West Point or Annapolis 2. being in federal prison * sarcastically, referring to the prison sentence, or

* tongue-in-cheek, referring to obtaining further education while in the federal prison)