President-elect Donald Trump met with controversial former Washington, D.C. public school chancellor Michelle Rhee, who is considered to be in the running for Secretary of Education as part of his administration.

Her husband, Sacramento mayor Kevin Johnson, joined her for the meeting on Saturday at the billionaire businessman's golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey.

The couple, who are both Democrats, were photographed departing the clubhouse in the afternoon after their meeting and shaking hands with Trump outside.

Like Trump, Rhee has been a supporter of school choice, which calls for public money to be used for charter schools.

President-elect Donald Trump met with former District of Columbia public schools leader Michelle Rhee (pictured above on Saturday who is considered to be in the running for Secretary of Education as part of his administration

Rhee was joined by her husband, Sacramento mayor Kevin Johnson for the meeting on Saturday at the billionaire businessman's golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey (pictured above on Saturday)

In September, Trump released his School Choice Policy that calls for the incoming administration to redirect $20billion in federal funds immediately to school choice - which will be in the form of block grants for roughly 11 million children living in poverty, Fox News reported.

'We want every disadvantaged child to be able to choose the local public, private, charter or magnet school that is best for them and their family,' the Trump campaign said in announcing the plan.

'Each state will develop its own formula, but the dollars should follow the student.'

While Rhee, the daughter of Korean immigrants, worked in DC as the chancellor, she was given the power to change the under-performing city's school system under Mayor Adrian Fenty.

In 2008, she was featured on the cover of Time magazine with the headline, 'How to Fix America's Schools'.

However, the picture of her holding a broom offended and enraged teachers who felt as though the image showed her intentions of how she wanted to fix the school system by sweeping out the most experienced teachers, as she called for educators to be paid based on their performance and not by their tenure.

The Republican president also supports teachers being paid based off of merit, which he claims rewards 'great teachers ...instead of the failed tenure system that currently exists, which rewards bad teachers and punishes good ones.'

Rhee began her career as a teacher with Teach for America, before founding a non-profit group to train educators in 1997. (pictured above on Saturday)

Rhee has also been the supporter of the Common Core educational standards in the past, which the president-elect has often called a 'total disaster.'

Trump has vowed to abolish Common Core in his first 100 days as president and replace it with the School Choice and Education Opportunity Act.

While Rhee worked in D.C., the high school graduation rates improved as well as the scores in standardized testing for math and reading.

Despite the improvements, parents and others stopped supporting her as they complained Rhee made decision with little public input about firing principals and teachers. In 2010 alone, she fired 241 teachers in the city, Fox News reported.

The appointment of Rhee – who has been dubbed 'Public Enemy No. 1' of the teachers' unions -- would be a bold move by the Trump team, and a signal that his administration is gearing up to take an aggressive stance on education reform.

Her history of backing school choice and battling the teachers' unions has also earned her support from many conservatives.

Rhee began her career as a teacher with Teach for America, before founding a non-profit group to train educators in 1997.

Rhee has served as CEO of StudentsFirst, a non-profit group she founded in 2010 to lobby for education reform initiatives.

Trump has spent the weekend at his golf club in New Jersey meeting with high-profile figures in the political and business world to finalize members of his Cabinet.

Rhee has served as CEO of Students First, a non-profit group she founded in 2010 to lobby for education reform initiatives (pictured above on Saturday)

Outside of meeting with Rhee, Trump also met with former Republican presidential nominee and governor of Massachusetts Mitt Romney.

The US president-elect was joined by Mike Pence for a meeting with Romney, who has been one of his most outspoken critics.

Trump clapped his hands several times as Romney walked up the steps to the clubhouse just before 1pm.

Romney shook hands with the president-elect and said 'good to see you, sir', as they gripped each other's arms.

He then shook hands with Pence and patted him on the back as the three men walked into the clubhouse together.

It is believed Romney is a possible contender for secretary of state, despite the fact that he led the Republican opposition against Trump's campaign for the presidency.

The former Governor of Massachusetts also previously called Trump a 'phony', 'fraud' and 'con man', criticizing both his fitness to be president and his policies.

The two men gamely extended their hands out for a polite shake as Pence smiled on the steps of the clubhouse before their meeting on Saturday

The men politely shook each other's hands before Romney left the president-elect to continue his meetings for the day

In May, Romney wrote a lengthy Facebook post in which he said Trump should be disqualified from receiving the nomination after refusing to release his tax returns.

'There is only one logical explanation for Mr Trump's refusal to release his returns: there is a bombshell in them,' Romney wrote.

'Given Mr. Trump's equanimity with other flaws in his history, we can only assume it's a bombshell of unusual size.'

Meanwhile, Trump has called Romney one of the 'dumbest and worst candidates in the history of Republican politics'.

He also said Romney 'choked like a dog' in his failed 2012 presidential bid against Obama after the former governor said a Trump presidency would lead to 'trickle-down racism'.

Romney has since seemed to try and bury the hatchet with Trump, congratulating him after the Donald was elected president earlier this month.

'Best wishes for our duly elected president,' he tweeted. 'May his victory speech be his guide and preserving the Republic his aim.'

Trump gave reporters a thumbs up as Romney left the clubhouse after their meeting

And Trump's meeting with Romney can be seen as an olive branch to a figure firmly planted in the Republican establishment.

The two talked for more than an hour on Saturday before Trump walked Romney out, telling reporters the meeting 'went great'.

Romney told the press that he and the president-elect had a 'far reaching conversation' about 'various theaters in the world' where the United States has vested interests.

'We discussed those areas, and exchanged our views on those topics - a very thorough and in-depth discussion in the time we had,' Romney said in a statement.