One of the toughest things Kayla Daniels ever had to do was give up on her parents and focus on herself. “My parents would get clean for a few months, I would go back with them, and they would relapse,” said Daniels, now 23, who said she spent most of her childhood in and out of foster care while her mother and father struggled with addictions to methamphetamine and other drugs. Read More

City College of San Francisco could net $1.1 million in unclaimed credits if former students don’t step forward by June 25 to claim their money. While cash-strapped community college officials would be happy to keep the money to help plug their own budget gap, they are required by law to seek out the nearly 16,000 former students who never collected reimbursements for dropped classes and other cash left in their school accounts. Read More

As schools across California continue to wrangle with state budget cuts, voters in three San Mateo County school districts will have their say in June about funding measures. The Jefferson Union High School District in Daly City is proposing a $48 annual parcel tax that would run from July of this year until June 2016. The district calculates that it has lost $3.4 million in funding since 2008, and it stands to lose another $1.5 million. Measure Y would net $1.5 million for Jefferson Union’s five schools. Read More

People with HIV are four times more likely to suffer sudden cardiac death than the general population, according to a new study by researchers at UC San Francisco. The 10-year study, published Monday in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, looked at nearly 3,000 HIV patients at San Francisco General Hospital between 2000 and 2009. Among the 230 who died, AIDS was the most common cause, accounting for more than half the deaths. But 13 percent suffered sudden cardiac death, when the heart stops beating unexpectedly. Read More