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additional research by Bruce Murphy and Caroline Goyette Back in the 1930s, federal New Deal workers built Greendale as a model village for the working class. Planners surrounded the settlement with thousands of acres of farmland and parks to shield the village from Milwaukee. Seven decades later, the greenbelt is gone and Greendale feels similar to the average Milwaukee suburb. Yet something of the old planners’ ideals might remain, for Greendale scored as the top K-12 school system in our rating of metro area schools. About 92 percent of students in this middle-class suburb achieved proficiency or better in math…