[9] On January 27, 2021, Stride Inc. (formerly K12 Inc.) announced Nate Davis would be retiring and James J. Rhyu will be taking over his role as CEO.

Stride offers its online curriculum at three levels: In 2015, 526 virtual schools in the United States enrolled 278,511 students.

[20]: 87 Stride's product line includes courses for pre-K, elementary, middle, and high school grades, online learning platforms, and educational software.

The majority of lessons in the early grades are offline using textbooks, printed materials, and hands-on activities.

[19] The learning coach (typically a parent or guardian) is expected to spend three to five hours each day monitoring students' progress, logging attendance, and facilitating lessons.

Short answer or multiple choice assessments are given at the end of most lessons in K-8 and are administered and recorded by the learning coach.

[23] In addition to core and comprehensive courses, students can choose remedial, Honors, Credit Recovery and Advanced Placement options.

Stride offered the Commonwealth of Virginia three plans: a teacher-student ratio of forty, fifty, or sixty to one.

[33] In 2020, Stride expanded into the adult learning space with the acquisition of data science and software engineering bootcamp Galvanize.

With the companies rebrand in November 2020, it was announced that they would acquire Tech Elevator, a computer coding bootcamp, and MedCerts,[34] an online healthcare career training program.

[35] Fuel Education operated as a separate legal entity from Stride, Inc., and houses different personalized learning programs.

[37] A study at Western Michigan University and the National Education Policy Center found that only a third of K12's schools achieved Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP), which is required for public schools by the federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) legislation.

[38] Proponents argue that such statistics are undermined by the fact that a significant proportion of newly enrolled students begin several grade levels behind because of a failure of brick and mortar schools.

With only one exception, they performed worse in English and language arts" The press and politicians have been equally critical.

[11] The New York Times investigated K12 and concluded that the company squeezes profits from public school funding by raising enrollment, increasing teacher workload, and lowering standards.

[18] In Ohio, an organization founded by a K12 official hired temp agency workers to demonstrate with signs against state representative Steven Dryer, who challenged their funding.

The company paid an undisclosed ransom amount, saying, "Based on the specific characteristics of the case, and the guidance we have received about the attack and the threat actor, we believe the payment was a reasonable measure to take in order to prevent misuse of any information the attacker obtained".