The department may expend the money in any appropriation, or in any special fund in the State Treasury now remaining or made available by law for the administration of the provisions of any of the statutes enumerated in this article or for the use, support, or maintenance of any board, commission, office, or officer that is abolished by the provisions of former Section 361, and whose duties, powers, and functions are, by the provisions of Section 33306, transferred to and conferred upon the Department of Education, excepting that the funds of the State Board of Education in respect to functions retained by it, including such funds as are now or may hereafter be entrusted to the State Board of Education for administration, and the funds of the Superintendent of Public Instruction shall be administered as heretofore.