OAKLAND — Want a chance to shape how the Oakland Unified school district is run and how it spends it money every year?

The district is holding an upcoming series of meetings on its Local Control Accountability Plan, which allows community members to voice their views on how the district could best serve its students and families.

The LCAP will be discussed on two nights: first, at an English Language Learners’ Sub-Committee meeting Thursday, March 16, from 5 to 7:30 p.m. at La Escuelita Elementary School, 225 11th St.; then, Tuesday, March 28, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. during a Foster Youth Advisory Committee meeting at Lakeview Campus, 746 Grand Ave.

A study session on teacher retention will be held April 11 from 5:30 to 8 p.m. at a location to be announced. Please see the calendar on the district’s website for the finalized locations for this meeting.

To learn about California’s new education accountability system, free workshops on the Dashboard and the LCAP will be offered by the California Collaborative for Educational Excellence, a new state agency created to support local education agencies. The workshops will be held Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Oakland Marriott City Center, 1001 Broadway, and from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Hilton San Jose, 300 Almaden Blvd. For more information or to register, simply click “Register” at http://ccee-ca.org/workshops-trainings- spring2017.asp. Everyone is welcome and school representatives are highly encouraged to attend.

For more information on Oakland school district’s LCAP, go to http://www.ousd.org/lcap. To see its 2016-19 LCAP, go to http://bit.ly/2moIqVB.