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"I feel fantastic," said Black in the Upper East Side. "I just went to a couple of parties and people said, "How wonderful. Thank you for doing this for the city.' And I feel great."

Many parents throughout the city told NY1 Monday night that they did not feel nearly as good about the former publishing executive heading the largest school system in the country.

"She may be a good woman, but I think she should have the experience to be the chancellor for the entire school district of New York City," said Emmanuel Silvia, the parent of a public school student.

"She has zero public education experience. She doesn’t even have the experience of having a student in a public school, a son in the public school setting. So I’m sad about it," said Dan Vazquez, another parent of a student.

Luz Sanchez, who has a six-year-old in public school in the Bronx, said the skills that made Cathie Black successful in the business world are not the same ones needed in to run a school system.

"The children are going to fall behind, like they've been [doing]," said Sanchez.

A group of parents and elected officials has been vowing to fight to prevent Black taking the job. Parents met in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn on Monday Night to talk strategy.

"All the parents, teachers, advocates should come out and protest, because this is an outrage," said Carla Phillip, a protesting parent. "You're telling me that there's not a principal, a superintendent, anybody out there in the State of New York that [the mayor] could find?"

Black said she is not worried about her opponents.

"They will get to know me. I am about parents, I am about their children. We want the best schools we possibly can have and the best education we can for the kids. So, onward!" said the incoming schools chancellor.