1. I open up Emacs, and notice that I don't see the usual highlighting of the keyword NEXT or the text "Pay Credit Card" like they appear in my school.org file usually:
   
2. (optional): Try to refresh the buffer a few times with dashboard-refresh-buffer. Note that nothing changes.
3. I press a to get to the agenda section, and point is immediately teleported to the "Pay Credit Card" heading shown here.
4. I get to school.org which opens up as a split window on the right
5. I immediately do delete-window (bound to C-x 0 usually)
6. I am back to the *dashboard* buffer, and see this (the org heading is now highlighted)
   

I would like the org heading to be highlighted as usual when I start up. Would this be a bg?

Edit: Here is also my use-package dashboard block:

(use-package dashboard
  :init
  (add-hook 'after-init-hook 'dashboard-refresh-buffer)
  :config
  (setq dashboard-startup-banner 'logo)
  (dashboard-setup-startup-hook))