Reduced milk and lunches, matching monies, and such. But actual content and methods of teaching have nothing to do with them.
My sister in-law is an auditor for them. She flies around the country auditing stupid nickel for milk or reduced lunch paperwork.
Remember, the DOE was a gift from Carter to the unions and to enrich a bunch of federal eduparasite emplyees who's mandate has nothing to do with education itself. Reagan promised to bury the department and preside over it's funeral but he renigged. Funny that a guy who could stare down Gorbechev at a nuclear arms table backed down from cutting government employees and stupid cost shifting mechanisms.