Capital Area Technical College plans to lay off workers, restructure contracts, leave positions vacant and reduce some employee hours across its four Baton Rouge-area campuses to cope with a $1 million budget cut from the state. Community and technical colleges in the central, northeast and northwest parts of Louisiana are taking similar restructuring approaches that administrators said will avert larger-scale layoffs. On their way to balancing the state’s budget, Gov. Bobby Jindal and the state Legislature cut $66 million from Louisiana’s public colleges for the fiscal year that began on July 1. The Louisiana Community and Technical College System will absorb about $20 million of those budget reductions, according to a compilation from the state’s higher education governing board.
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