Maybe I missed the fanfare, if there was any, when the Morning News posted an exhaustive list of data culled from DISD files. There is lots of interesting data, if by interesting you want to see information on just about every check written by DISD, a compilation of crime that occurred at every DISD campus, and an effectiveness rating for every DISD campus. What I found out was that each of the three DISD school’s my kids have attended have all been sub-par performers relative to other DISD schools, that there were 18 incidents of controlled substance violations during the 2006-2007 school year at our son’s middle school (I would have guessed there would have been more), and that DISD writes a whole lot of checks each month. What I didn’t find, however, was any real comparison of how my sons’ schools compared with other DISD schools, with suburban schools and with other state and national schools. It’s a website with mixed blessings — yes, I have access to all kinds of data, but unless I spend a good portion of the next month analyzing that data, it’s probably going to be either misleading, alarming or simply information overload for me. So I’m not sure whether to thank the News or ask the obvious question: Where’s the similar data for Plano, Highland Park, Grapevine, et al?