Date: 2026-08-03. Position-mapping seed; full fault-line documentation pending.
Reusable design assets located
- The Unifying Framework for the ECE Profession is a genuine 15-organization consensus artifact (NAEYC convening; NEA, NHSA, SEIU, ZERO TO THREE among signatories) covering career pathways, competencies, qualifications, and compensation across settings (NAEYC, framework text). This is the §4 workforce-structure answer pre-negotiated by the coalition itself — a drafting asset of the first order.
Fault lines confirmed live (from the coalition's own materials)
- Credentials-without-compensation: the coalition's own implementation commentary warns that "additional competency requirements will be levied with no additional compensation" (NAEYC) — the §13.3 credentialing fault line, stated from inside
- Union-structure split: school-based pre-K educators fold into teacher unions; FCC providers bargain against the state as quasi-independent contractors (CA's 2020 collective-bargaining win — AFSCME, EdSource). Two labor models with different interests in delivery design — the school-district vs. mixed-delivery fault line has an organizational substrate
- NHSA is design-contingent, not oppositional: endorsed BBB's structure (ws10). The Head Start "veto point" is negotiable if the design funds and preserves grantees
H13.1 (intra-coalition fault lines kill bills) — refined: BBB's childcare title wasn't killed by coalition fracture (it cleared the House with the coalition intact); it died with its vehicle. The fault lines' effect is subtler: they shape what gets drafted (mixed delivery everywhere, Head Start held harmless), which raises cost and complexity before any vote. Fault lines tax the design; vehicles kill the bill.
Pending: direct reads of NEA/AFT resolutions, ECEC (for-profit trade) position papers, IFS/AEI/Heritage critique primary texts for the steelman, intergovernmental (NGA/NCSL) implementation objections.