The John Swett Unified School District board voted unanimously to discontinue the 90-year-old mascot Indians on Feb. 13, 2015, amid national debate about the use of Native American-based mascots.

The John Swett High School decision follows a similar one in Vallejo in February, 2014. The school board there decided to drop the "Apaches" mascot. Vallejo High School's new mascot is the "Redhawks." ...

2000-06-09 04:00:00 PDT HERCULES-- The John Swett Unified School District has backed away from a proposal to annex parts of Hercules as a way of coping with declining enrollment that has hurt ...

John Swett has been hailed as the father of education in California. As state superintendent of schools, he erected the permanent structure of California’s free public school system. It was ...

SKOWHEGAN — John Swett had two singles and two RBIs to lead the Skowhegan baseball team past Brewer 9-6 in a Kennebec Valley Athletic Conference Class A game Friday afternoon.

San Francisco's John Swett Elementary School is not going quietly. One of 14 schools slated by the Board of Education to close or move at the end of this academic year, the Western Addition school ...

Student demographic data and trends for John Swett Unified (California) from 1987 to 2006. The New York Times - Breaking News, World News & Multimedia Home Page ...