The D.C. Council on Tuesday agreed to dole out millions of dollars that it had threatened to withhold from the public schools budget until the fall, allowing Chancellor Michelle Rhee to fully staff her classrooms before the start of next school year.

The monthlong clash between Council Chairman Vincent Gray and D.C. Public Schools’ Rhee over school enrollment projections, with its ugly public rhetoric and threats of mass layoffs, was set aside in favor of compromise.