Without knowing if you are dual income or not, age of kids, or exactly why you have to spend 60 minutes for just 10 miles, I don't know if you could consider home schooling with one stay at home parent. A lot of life gets cheaper if someone is at home preparing meals, handling chores, not driving as much, etc.
In my case my wife is stay at home and does all the childcare during the day, making it far less likely that we will both be exhausted and resort to eating out (it's been months since we have wimped out). I've also become much more active in helping with meal planning and shopping to minimize small side trips. My bike commute is ~40 minutes and 7.5 miles, which was not too much of an increase over the 25-35 minutes typical during the high traffic commute times. I have a number of go-to meals I can fit into my backpack by swinging through the grocery store on the way home and cook in under 20 minutes to keep us from having any excuses.
The other solution is to change jobs. Find one that pays similar, or even less, that allows for a walking/biking commute in an area with OK schools. Resist the urge to demand the BEST school for your kids, you will end up finding lots of agro-moms have already pursued this path and driven up the cost of living. My favorite example was a vacant house across from where we house sat once, the family was renting a crappy apartment in Cupertino for the schools rather than have their kids go to the San Jose schools at an annual cost of about $25k on top of their vacant house mortgage (wtf?!).
30 years back I was in one of those dumbass gifted programs that bussed me to a different school. After 4 years it became clear the teachers were assigning heaps of extra homework to reinforce the notion to parents that their kids were being "challenged", even though we were progressing no faster. Most of the extra work was just increased repetition, and I was really hating it. My mom put me into the local elementary school instead, and despite being low-income and where I was a minority I was actually behind! Once caught up the new teachers were much more open to giving me more side work on extra topics rather than just giving me twice as many of the same problems and I actually did much better. I got sent down the hall to the next grade up for math for example. So even a "bad" school in a low-income neighborhood can work out just fine.
Similarly I cut off 3 years of high school by starting college after my freshman year (yeah, freshman 2 years in a row, horrors). I graduated with an engineering degree right before my 20th birthday after 5 years and got a couple year head start on my career while never having too heavy of a load (11-14 credits vs. typical 15-18 credit load needed to complete in 4 years). So there are innovative ways to keep the school system from crushing your children's spirit, and to minimize how much they spin their wheels if they are capable of learning faster.
Lastly, even a lousy school can be greatly compensated for by spending 30-60 minutes with your kid each evening (time usually spent driving) to tutor them on subjects they are struggling with, or extra topics outside the curriculum.