“I have appreciated the opportunity to share my thoughts on education with the PEOTUS,” Michelle Rhee wrote Tuesday. | Getty Former D.C. schools chief Rhee talked to Trump, not pursuing role

Michelle Rhee, an education reform advocate and the former chancellor of Washington, D.C., public schools, says she has talked with President-elect Donald Trump about education ideas — but that she isn’t pursuing a role in his administration.

Rhee has been mentioned as a possible education secretary. In a statement she tweeted on Tuesday, Rhee said she’d been told by some not even to bother talking with Trump but said that it was wrong to ignore him.

“I have appreciated the opportunity to share my thoughts on education with the PEOTUS,” Rhee wrote. “Interestingly, many colleagues warned me against doing so. They are wrong. Mr. Trump won the election. Our job as Americans is to want him to succeed.”

Rhee, who served as the chancellor of D.C. public schools from 2007 to 2010, had a tumultuous tenure that included some signs of progress but also teacher layoffs and local pushback. She has since led an advocacy group and served as chair of a chain of charter schools.

She resigned after former D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty was defeated in 2010.