Success Academy CEO Eva Moskowitz on Thursday said she will not accept an offer for Secretary of Education under the Trump administration. NY1's Lindsey Christ filed the following report.

Controversial charter school leader Eva Moskowitz says she is staying right here in the city, where she'll continue to run the Success Academy network she founded a decade ago. 

At City Hall Thursday, Moskowitz confirmed she met with President-elect Donald Trump a day earlier but would not be his education secretary. 

"I believe I can best serve our country's children by continuing to expand Success Academies, developing best educational practices that can be used around the country," Moskowitz said.

Moskowitz is a lightning rod in the city's civic arena, admired by supporters of charter schools, loathed by the teachers' union and other fierce charter opponents.

She would not say what she talked about with Trump, and there was no sign she was even offered the job. 

She said she voted for Hillary Clinton, but that Democrats like her must be willing to work with the new administration. 

"I am troubled by what I see as sort of rooting for Trump's failure because that is rooting for our own failure," she said.

The little that's known about the president-elect's education platform is that he supports school choice, which means supporting charters. Moskowitz pledged to support him on that. 

"There are many positive signs that President Trump will be different than candidate Trump," Moskowitz said. "Meeting with Mayor de Blasio recently certainly signals that he is trying to listen to new voices." 

But other charter school boosters, including Democrats for Education Reform, have urged liberals not to join the Education Department under Trump unless he disavows some of the rhetoric and policy proposals made on the campaign trail. 

Moskowitz runs 41 schools with 14,000 students here in the city. 93 percent of the students are children of color. 

There is no love lost between Moskowitz and the mayor. There is speculation that she would like to be mayor herself one day. She said she will not run against him next year.

But she joked the mayor is one reason why she is staying put.

"If I left and went to DC, who would keep their eye on de Blasio?" Moskowitz said.