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We propose a method for laser cooling two-valence-electron fermionic atoms.Our protocol employs resolved- sideband cooling on the stimulated Raman transition between the two magnetic sublevels (m=F and m = F- 1) of the ground state with total angular momentum F.The optical pumping from m = F - 1 to p are used to decouple atoms in the m = F - 1 state.We calculate the Raman coupling generated by an engineered optical lattice.The result shows that it is possible to laser cool the two-valence-electron fermionic atoms to the ground state.The atoms in the ground state provide a new system for quantum optics.