Divorce Increasingly Puts Schools In the Middle of Family Conflicts

School administrators in Hilton, N.Y., know that breaking up is hard to do--especially for the children. So they try to accommodate families in which parents have gone their separate ways.

The district will bend its residency rules to keep a child in the same school until the family's situation stabilizes. Administrators hold separate teacher conferences for divorced parents and send out duplicate report cards--one for the mother, one for the father.

The accommodations have limits, though. A new policy makes clear that schools are not obligated to send out a second copy of every official...