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[email protected] TOLEDO — The Toledo School District will pay Ron Reynolds a total of $140,000 over the next three years in a separation agreement approved Thursday night. Reynolds will resign his position as elementary school principal effec- tive Aug. 31 and he will not be transferring to another posi- tion within the district. “We have his keys and a letter of resignation,” Superin- tendent Sharon Bower told The Chronicle. “... We’re ready to focus on students and learning.” MUSEUM THEFT: Reynolds will start receiving monthly payments in Sep- tember. Bower said paying the $140,000 will not affect any Attorney for Former of the district’s services or benefits. “That’s the benefit of paying over three years,” Bower Director Says He said. “It has far less impact on our students.” Reynolds has remained on paid administrative leave Needs More Time since October of 2011, when a coroner's inquest jury identi- fied him and his son Jonathan as suspects in the December Before Trial / Main 5 1998 shooting death of his wife, Ronda Reynolds, a former state trooper. The jury said that she died in a homicide, not a suicide as initially believed, and determined that Ron and Jonathan Reynolds were responsible.