Staff in State Departments of Education are diligently reviewing and revising their state accountability systems to meet the new requirements and opportunities of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). ESSA is the latest reauthorization of the 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act, the primary federal bill guiding K-12 education policy. As a democracy requires equity and adequate educational opportunities, this policy memo provides guidance to states for selecting more inclusive school quality and student success indicators for accountability systems. The authors do not prescribe a fixed list of indicators that each state should adopt, or even a fixed list of categories for states to consider. Rather, they use indicators of opportunities to learn and school climate to describe the risks and possibilities that states should consider when deciding on indicators. This memo concludes by recommending approaches for selecting indicators that address the importance of equity and of students' perceptions of support, safety, and respect in the classroom. [A list of notes and references is included.]