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The Concord teachers union and the Concord School Board will go into mediation this week in hopes of reaching a contract agreement.
Concord teachers have been working without one for three months.
New Hampshire Public Radio’s Amy Quinton reports on why reaching an agreement in Concord is always a battle.

With the release of a new report (PDF) recently, New Hampshire has become one of the first states to tackle the problem of underage drinking from a statewide perspective. Bringing together community groups, elected officials, young adults and members of law enforcement, health care and other affected areas and facilitated by New Futures, the report lays out a roadmap to combat underage drinking. We'll look at the report, get an idea of how big the problem is, and what we as a state can do about it. Laura's guests are John Stephen, Commissioner of New Hampshire's Department of Health and Human Services, and Judge Edwin Kelly, Head of New Hampshire's District Court System and Chair of the Governor's Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse Prevention, Intervention, and Treatment. We'll also hear from Jennifer Weirwille Norton, Director of Policy for New Futures, and Kaitlyn Reilly, a Senior at St. Thomas Aquinas High School in Dover who is active in the Youth to Youth program and also helped push the party host liability law here in New Hampshire.