Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine and the Department of Education and Workforce launched a statewide Attendance Dashboard to tackle chronic absenteeism in K-12 public schools. The initiative targets the scale of the problem: more than 25% of Ohio students were chronically absent last year, missing at least 10% of required school hours. The dashboard is meant to give districts and educators a clearer view of attendance patterns, supporting more timely interventions for students at risk of falling behind. In parallel, the move signals that state-level accountability is increasingly data-driven, with dashboards intended to inform both policy and district practice. For higher-ed professionals watching K-12 pipelines, the initiative matters as a leading indicator of downstream enrollment and learning-readiness pressures that frequently show up in first-year college performance.