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The daycare, which gained notoriety for a notable misspelling on its signage, reportedly corrected the error last month following national ridicule. The scrutiny came amid a broader investigation into widespread fraud within Minnesota’s daycare system. To date, officials have not released a formal reason for the facility’s closure.
🚨 HELL YES! Commander Bovino and his team are now making arrests outside the Somali QUALITY LEARING CENTER in Minneapolis
THIS is what we want to see! 🤣🔥
MORE! pic.twitter.com/dEfonhcZsZ
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) January 8, 2026
JD VANCE: “This is not movie villain fraud. This is the lowest IQ possible fraud… We’re going to set up a daycare center where there are no kids and call it the ‘Quality Learing Center’… If you can’t spell ‘Learning,’ maybe you shouldn’t be in early childhood education.” pic.twitter.com/PCvS9P9PPd
— ALX 🇺🇸 (@alx) January 8, 2026
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State records show the facility requested a licensing review in June 2025 following several citations. However, “no evidence of fraud” was found at that time at least, Minnesota officials claim.
The center later drew significant public scrutiny when independent journalist Nick Shirley featured it in an exposé, which highlighted numerous daycares receiving public funds despite having no children on-site. During Shirley’s visit, the center appeared inactive despite having received $1.9 million in state childcare assistance.
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
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Although it was most recently operating as the Quality Learning Center, the facility was formerly named the “Salama Child Care Center.”
The Salama Child Care Center had a documented history of legal issues dating back to President Barack Obama’s administration. In May 2015, following over a year of surveillance, the FBI raided the site on charges of defrauding Minnesota’s childcare assistance program by billing for hundreds of thousands of dollars in services for absent children.
The owner at the time, Fozia Sheik Ali, was indicted in January 2017 on four counts of wire fraud and one count of theft of public money. Ali pleaded guilty in 2017 to one felony count of theft of public money, was sentenced in January 2018 to 24 months in federal prison, plus supervised release, and ordered to pay $1.45 million in restitution.
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“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 said of Shirley. “That’s what really hurt us the last couple of days.”
Ali also claims that the original incorrect spelling on the facility’s sign is the fault of the installer.
🚨🇺🇸 IT’S OFFICIAL: MINNESOTA’S INFAMOUS “QUALITY LEARING CENTER” IS CLOSED
The Minnesota Department of Human Services confirmed that Quality Learning Center on Nicollet Avenue is officially closed as of Tuesday, January 6th.
This is the facility that:
Couldn’t spell… pic.twitter.com/BENE45arFP
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) January 8, 2026
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