Group Gives High School $25,000 for Textbooks

Members of Textbooks Are Good, a grass-roots philanthropic group founded by show business executives, presented a $25,000 check to students Tuesday at Fremont High School to be used to purchase books.

The group was started after Terri Corigliano, a CBS executive, read about the shortage of textbooks at many Los Angeles schools.

“I thought with all the red tape, if you went through formal channels it would take so long that some children would go through four years of high school without a book,” Corigliano said.

So Corigliano began calling friends to raise money for textbooks. She called the Los Angeles Unified School District and was told Fremont High School was in dire need of books.

“The most important thing is people should step up,” Corigliano said. “It’s about a book here, a book there. You don’t know what kind of impact one book can have on somebody’s life.”