The U.S. Department of Education should not exist. Education is a state and local issue with which the FedGov should not be involved.
In reality, it is the state and local government busy bodies who are taking the federal funds and using them for their own private social experiments.
Get rid of all of them by school choice and school vouchers. The local idiots can’t control where you spend the money and the Federal bureaucrats would have their fiefdoms decimated by the pink slips.