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Negotiating teachers' contracts is not a process most teachers and school boards look forward to. And in recent years that process has become even more difficult--in some cases adversarial--as school budgets are cut and health care costs rise. We'll look at what happens between teachers and school boards at the negotiating table, why teachers are increasingly unhappy with what they are offered and whether they are asking for too much. Laura is joined by Karen McDonough, President of the New Hampshire Chapter of the National Education Association and Ted Comstock, Executive Director of the New Hampshire School Boards Association.