The Community Child Care Council of Santa Clara County has until June 30 to hand off $40-million-a-year in government contracts.

Many among the rank-and-file at the long-embattled 4C Council fear that Ben Menor will run yet another nonprofit into the ground.

Last month, 4Cs failed to pay its child care providers on time, violating the terms of their state grants and putting payees in a tough spot.

The California News Publishers Association honored the work of Metro Silicon Valley with six journalism awards.

A scathing audit convinced the California Department of Education to find a more scrupulous contractor than 4Cs to manage $40 million in grants.

A scathing new report found that 4Cs child care nonprofit mismanaged state grants and caused undue financial hardship for countless families.

The federal Office of Early Head Start is investigating claims of harassment at the Community Child Care Council of Santa Clara County.

The 4C Council child care nonprofit is under fire once again—this time for allegedly cheating employees out of retirement benefits.

Santa Clara County will consider whether to create a civilian watchdog division to keep an eye on its troubled jails.

Union members and their allies held a series of rallies in the South Bay Monday to demand better pay and working conditions.

In this week’s Metro SV411 Podcast, we sit down with Dave Cortese, president of the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors.

After 45 years at the helm of Silicon Valley’s largest publicly funded child care agency, the head of 4Cs has called it quits. But the audits go on.

Silicon Valley’s largest publicly funded child care agency announced Friday that it has to close three of its preschools.

Dramatic operating losses and reports of pension mismanagement have prompted a state audit of the 4C Council.

A pension freeze is only the latest sign of dysfunction at the 4C Council child care provider, the South Bay’s largest publicly funded nonprofit.

Allegations of mismanagement at the publicly subsidized 4C Council has employees, as well as the county’s top executive, calling for an audit.