The controversial former superintendent of Federal Way Public Schools has officially separated from the position he took after he left Washington state.

Rob Neu, the Federal Way district’s chief from 2010 to 2014, reached a separation agreement with the Oklahoma City Public Schools board on Monday to end his superintendency at the beginning of July. According to Oklahoma news outlets, he’ll remain on administrative leave through June 30 when, as part of his agreement, he’ll receive $100,000 (including $53,000 for his retirement plan).

Oklahoma City Public Schools is struggling financially, and Neu’s 21-month tenure ends after the district cut more than 200 teaching positions and plans for a $30 million budget shortfall for the 2016-17 school year.

The circumstances of Neu’s departure echo his exits from Federal Way Public Schools and from his prior position as superintendent of Waterford School District in Michigan.

When Neu left the Federal Way district in 2014 for Oklahoma City, he did so under scrutiny for spending $100,000 in district monies on trips for himself and others to Europe and Asia, paying $216,000 to settle a case brought by a principal he’d tried to fire for complaining about the overseas trips and handing out $106,715 in raises for himself ($42,000) and 17 people close to him.

When Neu left the Waterford district in 2010 for Federal Way, the district had just slashed 30 percent of its operating budget and signed a labor agreement that would hamper the district’s finances for years to come.

Neu’s family did not accompany him to Oklahoma, and they remain in the Enumclaw home that doubles as horse-training facility. Prior to his separation agreement on Monday, Neu was harshly criticized for not moving his family and for his attendance record to district meetings and events, his stance on student discipline, and his refusal to identify schools targeted for proposed charter school expansion.