Quality ‘Learing’ Center Shuts Down After Fraud Exposure
“Quality Learning Center requested closure of their license and it was closed effective Jan. 6, 2026,” – Minnesota Department of Youth, Children, and Families
The Minnesota daycare at the center of mounting scrutiny over public childcare funds is now officially closed.
According to state licensing records, the Quality Learning Center shut its doors this week, marking a quiet end to a facility that became nationally known after being featured in an investigative video by YouTuber Nick Shirley.
Fox News reported that the Minnesota Department of Human Services confirmed the closure, noting that the daycare’s license was formally terminated earlier this month.
“Quality Learning Center requested closure of their license and it was closed effective Jan. 6, 2026,” a Minnesota Department of Youth, Children, and Families spokesperson told Fox News. “The provider is unable to reopen without reapplying for a license.”
No explanation was provided by the state for why the center requested the closure. Fox News Digital said attempts to contact the facility were unsuccessful.
The closure follows months of public attention after Shirley visited the Minneapolis location while documenting what he described as daycares receiving public funds without visible evidence of operations. During his visit, the building appeared inactive, despite records showing the center was licensed for dozens of children and had received substantial childcare assistance funding.
“You do realize that there are supposed to be 99 children right here at this building, but there’s no one here,” Shirley said in the video, filmed outside the facility.
The center’s signage, which famously misspelled “learning” as “learing,” became emblematic of broader concerns raised in Shirley’s reporting. The video triggered public backlash and renewed focus on Minnesota’s childcare assistance program, particularly in Minneapolis.
Federal officials also weighed in. Education Secretary Linda McMahon condemned the situation on social media, writing that a daycare which “misspelled ‘learning’ on its building” had received nearly $2 million in public funds.
One fraudulent business in Minnesota that misspelled “learning” on its building received $1.9M this year while masquerading as a daycare.
There are not enough words to describe the breathtaking failure that has happened under the watch of @GovTimWalz. pic.twitter.com/jKorqta5ZU
— Secretary Linda McMahon (@EDSecMcMahon) December 28, 2025
Days after the video circulated, a man identifying himself as a Quality Learning Center manager disputed the allegations, insisting the daycare was operational and accusing critics of unfairly targeting the Somali community.
“Are you trying to record that we’re doing fraud, or are you trying to put the Somali name and the fraud in the same sentence?” he told Fox News.
State records show the facility’s most recent licensing review occurred in June 2025, when inspectors cited multiple violations but reported no confirmed evidence of fraud. Nonetheless, the center is now closed, its license surrendered, and its future contingent on reapplication.
As previously reported, the unanswered questions remain straightforward. The funding existed. The license existed. The building existed. What appeared conspicuously absent were children, staff, and day-to-day operations consistent with the scale of public money involved. With the Quality Learning Center now shuttered, Minnesota officials face growing pressure to explain how such facilities were allowed to operate and be funded, for as long as they were.
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Pity.. I was looking forward to some quality learing.
Low quality is a quality.
Or leering, as your interests may guide you.
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Or, Shakespeare plays.
Live and Lear
Lear and learing jokes are all the rage on the Internet right now.
This is how you win. Logic and reason are useless. Shame and ridicule are the only things liberal children in adult-sized bodies can comprehend.
I don’t fear
To lear with raised brow
That should be clear
As I drink beer
And watch as toy boats go over the weir.
Oh, dear,
Will someone leer
As mere
Peasants both straight and queer
Ask their peers
Sitting upon their ample rears
What memories were seared in John Kerry’s mind
Bring a tear to the eye of a drunken Senator
Causing hiss car to veer
Off the Bridge many a year
Ago
/I promise! I have not been drinking or doing anything to which the DEA may take exception
Perhaps we have all missed a deep yearning for the center to hark back to more literate times. Lear was an accepted variant of learning into the early 19th century.
I;m old but not that old.
Thank you… “ken.”
Well, this is a start. When does someone, or should I say, many people go to prison. The first in line should be the esteemed congress critter Omar. Followed closely by the Gov.
Then, mass deportations.
I know investigations have to be done but this is a no-brainer.
How come It took some blogger with a phone to expose all this? That should be embarrassing for the powers that be.
Probably because of the scale of the fraud. To make up for the lack of enough investigators, independent investigators, such as Nick Shirley, fill in the gaps.
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“How come It took some blogger with a phone to expose all this? That should be embarrassing for the powers that be.”
It was hilarious to read the clownshow in the CNN article, to see all the cognitive dissonance in the comments.
“Why is this blogger out harassing people?”
Because the MSM was covering for this fraud, not reporting on it,
“This fraud has been going on for over a decade and it’s gotten plenty of coverage.”
Apparently not any of the quality of Nick’s, because his went viral, and it looks like a lot more people were hungry for the type of investigation he did than what CNN was “doing.”
And the real belly laugh? The headline of the CNN article wasn’t “Humongous Fraud in Minnesota”… it was “Who Is Nick Shirley?” Yup, “pouncing Republican” coverage,
Because a blogger with a phone was looking for the fraud unlike Minnesota government workers who were looking the other way for decades while this fraud and embezzlement ramped up to the amounts we are finding out about now.
And they will reopen in a month with a different name.
Do NOT allow them to get away with this fraud and theft.
Anybody trying to get a license for and operate a daycare in Minnesota is going to face microscopic examination, if not by the state authorities then by people like Shirley. At least for a while…
Day Core Center?
Why bother? The same owner probably has 100 other licenses and operations, perhaps even including one or two that have actual children attending.
Why shut down if you are legit? Where are the children going to go now? It’s usually hard to find daycare, but apparently easy to find Somali daycare.
Well, when it comes to raising children, where better to find the “necessary” tribal village?
Here’s your daily reminder that because fraud is so pervasive that two-thirds of your tax dollars is completely wasted on schemes such as learing centers.
If you do not feel a white-hot rage within you that your labor is being stolen and given to these subhuman beasts then you are not paying attention.
No learning was taking place at the “Learing” center because:
1. It was a Learing center not a Learning center
2. “Learing” is the Somali word for fraud
3. There were no children there to learn anything anyway
4. _________________________________________
The center received $1.9 million in state funds during the 2025 fiscal year.
What did they learn? They learned how to make a killing with little or no effort. The only real expense was for kleenex tissue as they cried all the way to the bank.
Not to worry, he has 39 more learing facilities.
This is nothing but managing the damage. Dropping the thing that attracted the spotlight while quietly moving as much money and at-risk personnel as possible out of the country.
How can you “shut down” something that was never functionally open?
It was open to receive federal funds.
The reverse of me at the end of WuFlu. I didn’t have to reopen because I never shut down. I could look down Hawthorne from 50th and not see a headlight before the hill at 30th. Sheltering out in the open was great.
Reportedly the scam was much bigger and encompasses multiple revenue streams. There’s the ‘day care’ scam. Then there’s an ancillary food scam at the same place. Where do the names/occasional children come from? Easy, the ‘daycare’ operation brings the Parents onto their ‘payroll’ as janitors, food service, teaching aides. All no show no work ‘jobs’. Why? It’s part of the kickback to the Parents for supporting the daycare scam and the food distribution scam. This way the Parents get paid for a ‘job’ and b/c they have their 80 hours a month they maintain eligibility for their own ‘welfare program’ scams by showing a pay stub with the minimum work requirement. Add a bogus SSA disability claim check for ‘autistic’ children on top of that, maybe Sec 8 housing/rental assistance and these folks literally live off the taxpayers.
I suspect there’s similar issues in every State b/c there’s serious negative incentives in many places to root out this sort of embedded fraud. Likely far more in more permissive blue/sanctuary States/Cities but still gonna be a surprisingly amount Nationwide.
Where will the Somali chillins go to get a edumacation? WILL NO ONE THINK OF THE CHILLENS?
C’mon you guys…it was a play on John Lear, hence the intended misspelling!
The common factor in affordable housing in Portland is that all of the residents drive better cars than I do.
The owners probably think that by shutting down nobody can now prove they didn’t have any client children. But an analysis of their banking and credit card records (and other such records) will show whether or not they had expenses for (and were actually consuming) the types of goods and services that an actually operational day care would have. I’m betting that the records will show they had no such expenses and no recorded of actually consuming goods and services typical of a day care center.
This fraud and much other like it bring up the question of how much shortfall the US has on its unfunded liabilities. I read we have trillions of unfunded liabilities to social security and Medicare. But if the fraud is rooted out could we actually be in the black? Certainly we won’t be as much in the red.
I credit Trump, Elon Musk, and the DOGE team for laying the foundation for the loss of government money being funneled through USAID and other NGOs for leftist grift.
That removal of the pillars of fraud created the environment that we have today. An environment where fraud is visible and reported.
Dateline Minneapolis:
Somalians Jolly In Stolen Simoleons.
““Quality Learning Center requested closure of their license”
I am not yet tired of winning.
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