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Minnesota Daycare Exposed in Fraud Scandal Officially Loses License

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  • The Quality Learning Center child care facility in Minneapolis has officially closed following fraud scrutiny.

  • The center received nearly $2 million in state child care assistance in fiscal year 2025 before shutting down.

  • Its closure comes amid a widening investigation into alleged large-scale child care fraud in Minnesota and beyond.

Sometimes accountability doesn’t arrive with handcuffs or perp walks. Sometimes it shows up quietly, in the form of a locked door and a revoked license.

The closure of the Quality Learning Center is one of the first tangible consequences tied to Minnesota’s sprawling child care fraud scandal — and it won’t be the last. This was the same facility made infamous by independent journalist Nick Shirley, whose viral reporting exposed just how unserious some of these taxpayer-funded operations appeared to be. When a daycare collecting millions in public funds can’t even spell “learning” on its sign, it stops looking like a clerical error and starts looking like contempt.

State officials insist the closure was voluntary, but that explanation strains credibility. After receiving $1.9 million in public assistance in a single fiscal year, the facility shuttered its doors just as investigators were circling and journalists were asking uncomfortable questions. That’s not coincidence — that’s timing.

The shutdown also lands in the shadow of Tim Walz abandoning his reelection bid, citing the same fraud crisis now engulfing his administration. Whether the center closed out of fear, pressure, or inevitability almost doesn’t matter. What matters is that the system allowed this to happen in the first place.

And Minnesota may only be the opening chapter. With similar red flags now popping up in Ohio and Washington, this scandal is starting to look less like a local failure and more like a nationwide reckoning. The Quality Learning Center’s doors may be shut, but the questions it raised are just getting started.

From Western Journal:

The Quality Learning Center child care facility, featured in a viral video last month exposing alleged fraud in Minnesota, has closed down.

Independent journalist Nick Shirley posted a 42-minute video uncovering what he said was $110 million in fraud perpetrated through Somali-linked child care centers in Minneapolis.

In the video, Shirley reported in front of one of those facilities with a misspelled sign that read “Quality Learing Center.”

Many on social media could not help noting the irony that a place that is supposed to be teaching children couldn’t even get its sign right.

 

On Tuesday, Shirley posted a screenshot from Minnesota’s Department of Human Resources showing the center was closed as of Jan. 6, 2026.

CBS News reported, “The Minnesota Department of Children, Youth, and Families said that the center requested closure of its license effective Tuesday.”

“The provider is unable to reopen without reapplying for a license,” the agency reported.

“Quality Learning Center received $1.9 million from Minnesota’s Child Care Assistance Program in fiscal year 2025, according to the department. DCYF said it was made aware on Dec. 19 that the center intended to voluntarily close, but during a visit 10 days later, it learned it had chosen to remain open,” CBS reported.

 

The news came after Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz announced Monday that he was dropping his reelection bid to serve a third term, amid the alleged fraud in his state’s social services programs possibly totaling over $9 billion.

“Every minute that I spend defending my own political interests would be a minute I can’t spend defending the people of Minnesota against the criminals who prey on our generosity and the cynics who want to prey on our differences,” Walz said.

Evidence has come forth suggesting that the alleged child care facility fraud uncovered in Minnesota among the Somali community may not just be limited to the North Star State, but may also be found in other states like Ohio and Washington.

Last week, the Trump administration froze federal funding for child care facilities in Minnesota and other states as fraud investigations ramp up.

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