After a scuffle over school funds that raised more than a few eyebrows, the Broward County school board has consented to fork over a hefty $80 million to charter schools, breaking the financial standoff. This move comes after the Florida Department of Education sniffed out a potential misstep in disbursing tax revenue to these institutions, prompting an investigation, NBC6 reports.

Officials, including State Education Commissioner Manny Diaz Jr., put the pressure on the district by launching a probe on March 7 to see if the board was playing by the rules when it came to sharing the discretionary tax cash with charter schools, and just before the education board was set to muscle the district into compliance on Wednesday, the district caved on Tuesday, agreeing to a payment game-plan that would span three years, according to details shared by Andrew King, general counsel for the state Department of Education, The payoff scheme was apparently hatched the same day Peter Licata, the Broward County schools superintendent, decided to call it quits and ride off into retirement, his seat barely going cold before Howard Hepburn, formerly the deputy superintendent of teaching and learning, was ushered in to take the reins, CBS Miami relayed.

This twist in the saga is expected to get a rerun in a July education board meeting where they will again thumb through the details of the deal. But for the time being, charters across the district must be breathing a sigh of relief knowing that their coffers will soon be swelling with overdue funds, a resolution that seemed to dance on the edge of elusive before the district had its arm gently twisted to play ball.