<p>A Minneapolis learning center facing fraud officially shut its doors earlier this week — shortly after it finally fixed its misspelled sign.</p>
<p>State <a href="https://licensinglookup.dhs.state.mn.us/Details.aspx?l=1087038">records</a> show that the Quality Learning Center&#8217;s license was &#8220;closed as of January 6, 2026,&#8221; following weeks of scrutiny after journalist Nick Shirley featured the center in a video on alleged Somali daycare fraud in Minnesota. The daycare received around $1.9 million from Minnesota&#8217;s Child Care Assistance Program in 2025, bringing its total state funding up to around $10 million since 2019, according to <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/01/us/minnesota-daycare-fraud-allegations-somali">CNN</a>.</p>
<p>The center, which misspelled &#8220;learning&#8221; on its sign, appeared to be empty when Shirley showed up to ask questions in a video he posted on December 26. A man who identified himself as the manager of the Quality Learning Center later <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/theres-no-fraud-manager-of-misspelled-quality-learing-center-responds-to-fraud-claims">told</a> reporters that Shirley arrived too early for any children to be present, as the center operates from 2:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.</p>
<p>&#8220;Kids come to us, clients come to us, their parents come to us – they’re here daily, they leave on time, they come on time. There is no fraud going on whatsoever,” said Ibrahim Ali, who added that he was born in the United States and is of Somali descent. Ali argued that Shirley&#8217;s video was meant to paint Minnesota&#8217;s large Somali community in a negative light.</p>
<p>After Shirley&#8217;s video went viral, around 20 children were seen going into the Quality Learning Center&#8217;s building, the New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/12/29/us-news/quality-learing-daycare-targeted-in-minneapolis-fraud-video-blames-designer-for-typo-as-worker-snaps-at-post-reporter-get-the-f-k-out-of-here/">reported</a>.</p>
<p>“We’ve never seen kids go in there until today. That parking lot is empty all the time, and I was under the impression that place is permanently closed,” one person told the Post on December 29.</p>
<p>A state official said last month that the Quality Learning Center had already closed down after Shirley&#8217;s video spread online and in the media, but a spokeswoman for the Minnesota Department of Children, Youth, and Families later clarified that the center decided to remain open. Two weeks later, however, it appears that the owners of the suspicious daycare changed their minds.</p>
<p>Along with allegations of fraud, the Quality Learning Center also faced an astonishing number of state violations. The daycare was hit with 121 violations from state inspectors in the past four years, The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/not-learing-its-lesson-suspicious-minneapolis-daycare-was-hit-with-astonishing-number-of-violations">reported</a>. The 121 violations in four years are extraordinarily high for daycares in Minnesota, as the vast majority of daycares in the state received no violations during their annual licensing review, according to a 2020 government <a href="https://www.lrl.mn.gov/docs/2020/mandated/200311.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a>.</p>
<p>A state inspection in December of 2022 found that the daycare did not properly keep children’s attendance records. In 2024, the center received multiple violations because it lacked children’s physical exam and immunization documentation.</p>
<p>The fraud allegations threw Minnesota back into the spotlight last month after federal prosecutors charged dozens of people for allegedly defrauding taxpayers and taking money from state welfare programs. Most of the people charged by the feds in the alleged scheme were of Somali descent.</p>
<p>The fraud investigations in Minnesota also led to the Trump administration deploying 2,000 federal agents to Minneapolis last week. The city&#8217;s leftist leaders and residents have protested President Donald Trump&#8217;s move to target Minneapolis in immigration enforcement, and chaos erupted on Wednesday when a woman was shot and killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent after she blocked federal agents with her vehicle and then began to drive toward an agent who was standing in front of her SUV.</p>
<p>Protests continued on Thursday morning following the shooting as demonstrators confronted federal agents outside of an ICE facility. Schools in Minneapolis also closed on Thursday as the city braced for anti-ICE protests.</p>
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