Austin Beutner, the superintendent of the Los Angles Unified School District, said reopening schools will be complicated because of the number of people who are impacted.

For example, one of the schools in the district has 500 students, Beutner told CNN’s Fredricka Whitfield. Those 500 students have siblings who are in schools with about 50,000 more students, who go home to about 200,000 family members, he said.

One school with 500 individuals [is] connected to a quarter million people,» Beutner said. «We don’t want the quarter million people bringing the virus into the school and the school to spread and be a petri dish to share with the rest of the community.»

Some background: On Tuesday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom floated the idea of restarting school in late July or early August, saying that «the prospects of an earlier school year are warranted considering the prospect of neglecting our next generation.»

Local school officials would develop new protocols for physical education classes and recess at schools, as well as processes to deeply clean and sanitize schools, parks and playgrounds to keep infection rates down, Newsom said when discussing his plan on how to reopen the sate.