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“He’s going to make it,” music teacher Andy Cary said. Science teacher Jess Cooper, who had Valera-Vega in one of his physics classes, was similarly effusive. “He’s going to have success wherever he ends up,” he said. The Pendleton High School senior now is planning a move to Arizona to pursue a career in neuroscience, but the public education system didn’t always have the same faith in his ability as it does today. Born and raised in Pendleton, Valera-Vega at...