Original sentence: Virginia had finished 31st out of 41 states in the first round, but McDonnell did not believe that Virginia should apply for the second round because doing so involved the adoption of common core of standards to replace Virginia's Standards of Learning
Edited sentence: Virginia had finished 31st out of 41 states in the first round, but McDonnell did not believe that Virginia should apply for the second round because he erroneously believed the competition required the use  of multi-state education performance standards instead of Virginia's current standards