KILGORE — Kilgore college is meeting state mandated budget cuts by trimming 10% of the current budget of $12.5 million. School officials are curtailing hiring, freezing salaries, cutting jobs, dropping programs and cancelling state funded trips, like the upcoming trip the KC Chorale had planned to New York. There is even talk about having the band and Rangerettes only perform at home games next year. Other actions may have to be taken. School president Bill Holda says by the time lawmakers next year finalize the state\u2019s budget, he expects totaling funding to Kilgore College to be cut by as much as 30%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
KILGORE — Kilgore college is meeting state mandated budget cuts by trimming 10% of the current budget of $12.5 million. School officials are curtailing hiring, freezing salaries, cutting jobs, dropping programs and cancelling state funded trips, like the upcoming trip the KC Chorale had planned to New York. There is even talk about having the … Continue reading Cutting the Budget at Kilgore College<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-10 01:38:04","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56138"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56419,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56138\/revisions\/56419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}